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Mysterious River
Mysterious River
Xu Jiaze
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书籍简介
Everyone has a secret river within them.
Sometimes it's calm and still, other times it churns and rages.
The secret river often flows towards the person you fear touching most, yet desire most.
Intimate relationships are a sharp blade that pierce each other.
What seemed like an ordinary day,
reveals a family secret, an implosion from within each family member during their mundane daily lives,
a secret absolutely imperceptible from the outside.
What appeared to be an enviable family on the surface,
concealed constant undercurrents beneath its calm waters, threatening to overflow and flood.
The son unexpectedly comes out, the daughter decides to become a nun and practice Buddhism,
the mother encounters her first love and begins to relive old dreams,
the father has always carried the burden of being an illegitimate child,
and the grandmother, lost in a labyrinth of reality and memory, cannot find her way home.
In the frangipani tree in the yard, two old acquaintances, visible only to the daughter, float about.
Upstairs in the old house, a shadow constantly lingers…
The novelist employs a storytelling method that spirals and intertwines,
with the plot advancing through several protagonists taking turns in a relay,
allowing the narrative to flow backward through the story to reach the core of things.
Xu Jiaze has woven a story that interweaves magic and reality,
skillfully utilizing the existence of both fictional and real characters,
constructing a luminous and moving secret family history.
The story aligns with the flow of contemporary social changes in Taiwan,
using the metaphor of a river to unfold the desires and losses present in every family,
intending to trace the most enduring questions of life.
Sometimes it's calm and still, other times it churns and rages.
The secret river often flows towards the person you fear touching most, yet desire most.
Intimate relationships are a sharp blade that pierce each other.
What seemed like an ordinary day,
reveals a family secret, an implosion from within each family member during their mundane daily lives,
a secret absolutely imperceptible from the outside.
What appeared to be an enviable family on the surface,
concealed constant undercurrents beneath its calm waters, threatening to overflow and flood.
The son unexpectedly comes out, the daughter decides to become a nun and practice Buddhism,
the mother encounters her first love and begins to relive old dreams,
the father has always carried the burden of being an illegitimate child,
and the grandmother, lost in a labyrinth of reality and memory, cannot find her way home.
In the frangipani tree in the yard, two old acquaintances, visible only to the daughter, float about.
Upstairs in the old house, a shadow constantly lingers…
The novelist employs a storytelling method that spirals and intertwines,
with the plot advancing through several protagonists taking turns in a relay,
allowing the narrative to flow backward through the story to reach the core of things.
Xu Jiaze has woven a story that interweaves magic and reality,
skillfully utilizing the existence of both fictional and real characters,
constructing a luminous and moving secret family history.
The story aligns with the flow of contemporary social changes in Taiwan,
using the metaphor of a river to unfold the desires and losses present in every family,
intending to trace the most enduring questions of life.
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出版社/Publisher：大塊文化
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页数/Page: 216