Book Description
The Three Kingdoms History Even Luo Guanzhong Didn’t Know!
Breaking free from traditional historical narratives, this book blends elements from video games, anime, TV dramas, and online humor.
After thousands of fans relentlessly asking for it, the wait is finally over—
It’s time for "Somebody Sue" to reveal the hidden truths of history that have been concealed for centuries.
The disappointments of adult life, or what she called, “expectation fallacy”,《Waking Up in Dreams》is a collection of twenty-eight short stories by Taiwanese Canadian writer Coco Shen. These micro - sometimes nano - stories swing between sharp wit of Lydia Davis and melancholic humor of Lorrie Moore, a cutting yet poetic depiction of life’s living absurdity.
Travel without an address, but a big brown envelope: two passports, seven currencies, metro pass of several cities, receipts of different foreign languages, coaster from a German town that famous for its beer. Anti-biotic, mosquito repellent; paint brush, love letters. Four copies of signed and sealed divorce papers.”
Open the suitcase, choose an identity. Prose, poetry, travel journal and photography, Shen’s second book is a jigsaw of her ten years living elsewhere.
This book is a collaboration of a well-acclaimed young Hong Kong poet and four Taiwanese calligrapher. The poetry collection is divided into four sections. Each section is hand-written by a calligrapher, whose handwriting reflects personal understanding and feelings toward certain specific poems, and injects different emotional layers into the poems. As a result, this creates more space of interaction and imagination between the poet, calligraphers and the readers, and push poetry reading into another level.
It took 14 years for the author to finish this book. She is just like Fernando Pessoa or Franz Kafka, trying to construct a maze-like world with words, and trying to define or defeat loneliness in this world. One day, the nameless protagonist found that his wife had left him without any notice, which forces him to examine his way of living through all his life, even begins to question his own existence.
If your loved one becomes a burden one day, what would you do?
Struggled and rushed among hospital, office and housework, the caregiver tried to comprehend love and life with simple comfort food, and drawed strength from it.
Story grocery store sells human's, spirits', Taiwan's legendary creatures' and deities' stories, which brings people from heaven to hell and also from the past to the future. The store collects Taiwanese familiar but fade-out daily scenery in story bottles, then waits for customers who enjoy listening to stories to come.
스토리 잡화점
언옥콘텐츠스튜디오
'스토리 잡화점'에서 천국에서 저승까지, 과거와 미래의 '사람, 귄신, 요괴, 신'에 대한 스토리를 파는다. 대만 서민들 익숙하지만 곧 사라질 옛이야기를 유리병에 보관하여 고객을 조용히 기다린다.
A young causal worker is transformed into an atypical detective. He nonchalantly looks at the dark currents of contemporary Taiwan society, and is ready to strike the hypocritical adults with the heaviest and most agonizing blow.
“The Prescription for Freedom” is a modern fable that incorporates the knowledge of Chinese medicine in a story of sick people living in a sick city. A young Chinese medicine practitioner who makes house calls encounters many unhappy patients from all corners of the city. The healing calls not for medicine, but a prescription for freedom for the heart.
