Sending off the traveler

◎Content Introduction "The Sent Wanderers" is the debut novel by young writer Wu Chun. The author constructs a creative polyphonic narrative labyrinth using her imagination: a writer who can't type is writing a new novel and hires six transcribers to input the manuscript into documents, only to find a portion of it missing. "I," one of the transcribers, accepts the writer's commission to find the person who stole the manuscript—an operation "I" and the writer name "Searching for G." During the investigation, "I" meets the other transcribers one by one. Unexpectedly, the transcribers all seem to have hidden agendas and are explicitly or implicitly connected to Chaoshan: a historian, a dropout, an elderly recluse, a descendant of the Wu family searching for a missing lover, a mysterious online girl... "I" feels as if I've entered a perplexing labyrinth, undergoing a narrative experience of identity displacement: Why did G steal the writer's manuscript? What was written in the stolen manuscript? "The Sent Wanderers" is a linguistic web woven by the author with her unique, delicate, charming, and跳跃式的 (leaping) writing style, sifting out the darkness and spiritual light of dreams and reality, history and memory. It is also her passionate response to the world, the multitude of people, Lingnan customs, complex life, and broader intellectual interests. ◎Editor's Recommendation ★Winner of the 34th United Daily News Literature Award in Taiwan, Wu Chun's debut novel, a fantastic journey sparked by a stolen manuscript. "Fiction is, if you think about it many times, it will become real in your mind." —Wu Chun won the 34th United Daily News Literature Award for her short story "Taming the Tiger" and was among the top five finalists in the first "Anonymous Writer Project" for her short story "The Girl and the Sea of Consciousness." "The Sent Wanderers" is her debut novel, creating a polyphonic narrative labyrinth where time and space overlap with dazzling imagination: a writer who lost her manuscript, a historian, a dropout, an elderly recluse, a descendant of the Wu family searching for a missing lover, a mysterious online girl... They are brought together by a stolen manuscript, embarking on an adventure into the unknown. ★"Once a person has been profoundly lost, they will be lost in the same way for the rest of their lives." A narrative labyrinth interwoven with identity displacement and textual nesting, a story cube combining Lingnan memories and ghostly dreams. —"Little birds fly to the coniferous forest, we are guided by word games." Disappearance, elephant, blue bird, manuscript, fig, search, letter, sea, wandering deity, map, dream... The novel weaves several keywords into a highly poetic linguistic web, where characters and stories grow freely, and history and memory, text and reality merge into one. "Ultimately, language allowed me to escape myself, to retreat into silent nothingness." ★"A surprising and healing adventure," jointly recommended by Yan Lianke, Lo Yi-chun, and Zhang Yueran. "The richness of Wu Chun's novel is evident—not only in the unique reading experience brought by the different short stories embedded within the main plot, but also in the linguistic web woven by Wu Chun with her unique, delicate, charming, and跳跃式的 (leaping) writing style. Through a seemingly vague yet precise sifting, the alternation of dreams and reality is sometimes hidden and sometimes apparent. Ultimately, its completion points to the novel as a text itself, but at the same time, it is also Wu Chun's passionate response to the world, the multitude of people, Lingnan customs, complex life, and broader intellectual interests." —Yan Lianke "Indeed, it is a creative narrative labyrinth: strange separation, escape, fragmenting and patching up, connecting to the background hum of the human spectrum. For brains now filled with stories of many fantastical landscapes, it is a surprising and healing adventure." —Lo Yi-chun

2024-09-06

云南人民出版社

The Republic

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