Poseidon family

Through the journey of a woman from a foreign land, she discovers the story of a god and family secrets, and uses a complex structure to advance the family's love, hatred and sorrow layer by layer. On an island with various names, the sea god silently looks down on the sorrow of women, the absence of men, and the love and hatred of family and country. Chen Yuhui uses exquisite and psychologically insightful words to depict the homecoming journey of gods and humans, narrating the family movement in a beautiful and mournful tone. The same melody is varied and resonated in different chapters, each independent and closely connected, the plot is moving and the story is fascinating. Chen Yuhui constructs a negative historical perspective, establishing a new literary style for Taiwanese family history writing. She depicts figures on the margins of history, alludes to Taiwan's fate and historical scars over the past century, deeply ponders the meaning of being Taiwanese, and addresses the integration and opposition between individuals and ethnic groups. This is the most important achievement of Taiwanese novels in recent years!

Award record

Winner of the 2006 1st Dream of the Red Chamber Award (World Chinese Novel Award) Jury Award Winner of the 2007 Taiwan Literature Award Novel Golden Classic Award
Good reviews and recommendations
"Everyone who reads this book is moved by the stories of Taiwanese families. From the first page, they want to read to the last." Rebecca Casati, editor and writer of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung
"A Taiwanese family novel comparable to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrook, quite possibly the most important novel produced in Taiwan in the past century." Claudius Seidi, editor-in-chief and critic of the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

2023-07-04

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