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.
Love stories can be different, but the process from the beginning to the end of love is essentially the same. With the accumulation of time, love relations are gradually permeated by a sense of bitterness, which seems to be everywhere. When love becomes too heavy a burden, we imagine a kind of weightless love.
Bluey is small, but has high aspiration. The world is not wonderful, so she creates her own universe, and enjoys travelling in it with little penguin Pipi. “Bluey’s Book of Genesis”, a bilingual picture book in Chinese and English, is filled with humour and wisdom. Drawn in a simple style, it reveals a long-lost touch of innocence that gives you a knowing smile and warms your heart.
A slasher, besieged by harsh reality of life, is unexpectedly given a rare opportunity to travel to the past and the future. With five coupons for time travel in his hands, he isn’t sure if it’s coincidence or fate. Before he has time to think about it, his life-changing journey is already about to set off.
A swordswoman from Hong Kong and her local Taiwanese guide; their short trip of several days in Taipei turns into a bloody fight with touches of tenderness. She says: “The underworld is wherever I am.” People are involuntarily hauled into the underworld, and are mercilessly engulfed in it. What indeed is an underworld? This is a surreal martial arts novel, set in the modern days, but it actually tells a realistic story about personal growth, life and love.
3 stories in the past tense, about the ruthless passage from youth to
adulthood; an ongoing story in the present tense, about how love dwindles
and sinks; 4 forlorn funerals that will take place soon in the future. Between
the blooming and dying of love, and between life and death, there are
moments of slight happiness.
