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無父之城

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這是一座父親缺席的城,一個人的消失與離開有各種可能與結果。

海山鎮上的議員千金在生日派對隔天離奇失蹤,私家偵探陳紹剛受議員之託追查其女下落,因而結識到小鎮採訪作傳的作家汪夢蘭,各負創痛的兩人相互溫暖,挖掘線索同時深入自己,求救贖般投入調查。

少女的人間蒸發陰影般籠罩小鎮,也召喚出小鎮居民隱而不宣的祕密:地方望族的興衰糾葛及政治角逐、神祕的新興宗教神水社、復歸的政治迫害記憶……眾人各懷心思,供詞莫衷一是,汪陳兩人試圖拼湊 出線索,竟發現關鍵都直指同處。

透過尋人,陳紹剛欲彌補曾經的家庭錯憾,汪夢蘭為鎮民整理白色恐怖受難者身後筆記時,竟視見父親自死的答案浮現……兩人逐步接近真相的過程中,如何能各自從荒蕪毀棄中歸來?



有些祕密,

你甚至對自己也不會說出口。

父親的缺席及無父之子的失落在小鎮若無似有隱現。

眾人究竟該如何穿過記憶的海,抵達答案所在的彼端?

412 pages, Paperback

Published September 2, 2019

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陳雪

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Chen Xue, born 1970, is a key figure in the development of a queer literature in Taiwan.

She graduated from the Chinese Department of National Central University in 1993.

Since 1995, she has produced 10 novels and short story collections. Her 2009 novel The Possessed was nominated for three Taiwanese literary prizes, and her 2004 work Child on the Bridge was published in 2011 in Japanese, with an English translation in preparation.

The short stories "In Search of the Lost Wings of Angels" (tr. Patricia Sieber; tr. Fran Martin) and "Dust" (tr. Howard Goldblatt) are available in English-language anthologies.

Her story "Butterfly"/《蝴蝶》, was made into a film by Hong Kong woman director, Yan Yan Mak, and won awards in Taiwan, 2004, and Hong Kong, 2005.

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July 28, 2023
海山鎮議員女兒邱芷珊在17歲的生日宴會後離奇失蹤,前刑警的私家偵探陳紹剛受聘前來調查;寫作遇到瓶頸又被戀人分手的作家汪夢蘭到小鎮來替名人寫傳。在情感上都受到重創的兩人在與世隔絕的小鎮上相逢,除了一起解開少女失蹤之謎外,漸漸地,也相互將彼此的包袱卸下,離開小鎮後,重獲新生。

中心人物邱芷珊的不同面貌,分別從高中同學、她喜歡的男孩、愛戀她的男孩、家中司機、父親…等的訪談中浮現。謎團漩渦波及更多的祕密:鎮上的政治選舉角力;秘密宗教組織「神水社」;還翻擾起三代前兩大家族因白色恐怖造成的恩怨。

其實邱芷珊一直沒有離開小鎮,被埋屍在別墅大樹下的大坑洞是眾人共犯的成果。最初的猜測雖不中亦不遠—愛慾本性成了萬劫不復的入口,心旌搖晃、風起雲湧,高壇上的神人還原成凡人面目。

然而高明之處並不是單單敘說少女之死,除了目不暇給地在一次次反覆的謊言和真相所堆疊的迷宮裡走失,玩夠了角色扮演的偵探遊戲後,還有一篇篇故事中的故事—汪夢蘭用鎮上人物和傳言終於寫出的短篇小說—可以喘口氣。

作者的細膩筆法雖然有時稍嫌繁複,例如:那些重要的人事物不知因為打壓、掩埋,因為恐懼、逃避,或者歷史因素,被遺忘了好久好久…。但只要暫時轉念或快速掠過,還是可以感受到作者試圖傳遞的輕柔卻堅韌的意念。

絲縷般的纏繞。

已經很久很久沒有看華文小說了,還真好看哪!
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December 13, 2021
Very formule, which is unfortunate. The writing is much better than the narrative, which is boring and cheesy. Or maybe I just have become skeptical of the possibility of healing through writing, encounter, starting over. The title is also a misnomer--also why so pallologocentric?
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