2020臺灣文學獎得獎作品。反覆逃離又折回，陳思宏《鬼地方》。不堪卻無以抵擋的過往猶如鬼魂，形影朦朧卻縈繞不去：如同那些看似終於消失的，定睛一看，原來都仍在原地。BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARDKeith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan Berlin, where he finally finds acceptance as a young gay man. The novel is set about a decade later, on Ghost Festival, the Day of Deliverance.After Keith's release from a maximum security prison, he has nowhere to go but home. With his parents gone, his siblings married, mad, on the lam, or dead, there is nothing left for him there, so it seems. As he explores his uncanny home town, we learn what tore his family apart, and, more importantly, the truth behind the terrible crime Keith committed in Germany.Told in a myriad of voices-both living and dead-and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town is a mesmerizing
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR & WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARDChen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with seven daughters, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man.The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family’s village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen’s boyfriend.Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.中文版為《鬼地方》陳思宏著 鏡文學出版https://www.sanmin.com.tw/Product/index/007407226
