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我的蟻人父親

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螞蟻能拖行比自己重一千四百倍的物品,也能舉起比自己重五十二倍的東西,是全世界力氣最大的昆蟲之一。

「父親指著二十多層的大廈說:我蓋這棟的時候,你小學剛畢業……」

「父親是喜歡小東西的;父親曾是三十年的版模工人;父親也曾好賭成性但至終為了家庭收手;父親退休了;父親是知道我的同志身分的。父親是沉默的。」

失了分寸的愛,傷人最深。

青年作家謝凱特走過必然的成長痛,透過細膩觀察,解析親情、友誼與愛情中的索討、給予及矛盾,重新理解愛與被愛的各式可能。他以平易近人的文字,打造出一間微觀世界的娃娃屋,妥善安置在人生長河中所遭逢的角色:與他交換化妝心得的媽媽、帶著些微距離感的哥哥、因為當兵跳傘而罹患重度憂鬱症的大伯、暗戀過的女同學與男同學、罵人是 gay 實際上也是同志的同學 L、擔任兄弟間傳話筒的髮型設計師、前任與現任戀人們,當然還有如螞蟻般撐起一座城市與一個家的父親......

以文字停格美好遺憾,溫柔再現愛的副作用,讓傷害與愛並存相擁。一本無法輕忽的臺灣九零年代成長紀事。

「時光會輪迴,以一種看不見的形式重新安排父母子女間的關係。當父親工作時,我安心念書;當他退休時,我忙於工作,在他豢養的家中宇宙頻頻缺席。」

304 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2018

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July 13, 2024
I really enjoyed this book. My goal this year is to read books from different cultures and this was the first one (yes, half way through the year :)). Anyway, it was great to get to know the author and his home country from his amazingly written stories. Sie is a great storyteller. He brought a bit of magic into every paragraph. I read the Czech translation and it had a lot of typing errors, which was quite annoying and distracting. However, the translator included a section from his own experience from Taiwan. That and Sie's stories helped me imagine, what life in Taiwan is like.
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June 18, 2019
挖掘家族史或家人間幽微情感的作品總能喚起我的興趣,此書亦不意外;總是能夠在那些各色不一的別人的家人中發現某某親族的神貌,彷彿另類的印證了契軻夫的「不幸的家庭百百種」,但這百百種卻總能折射出相類的光采。
雖然另一個reviewer認為裏頭的青春關鍵字無法召喚起他人的共感,但我卻覺得作者對於記憶物件的調度、安排很精彩,許多抽象的關鍵字貼附具時代感的物件上,紛呈出獨具一格的記憶色譜。若真要列舉不喜歡的地方,倒是覺得和某些前任的片段有些膩煩,到後來甚至會很想捉住作者的肩膀狂搖對他大喊說:「你的情感模式出了問題,是不是該去諮商!」(但從書中顯見作者對於心理治療方法是嫻熟的)
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113 reviews6 followers
June 10, 2024
謝凱特寫家總是好看
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