Ghost Town

A haunting tale of murder, secrets and superstitions

By: Kevin Chen, Darryl Sterk (Translator)

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Paperback | 25 August 2022

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384 Pages

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2.5 x 13.7 x 21

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A mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures, from the winner of the Taiwan Literature Award.

'Rich and complicated.' - The News Lens
'Ghost Town is a masterpiece of twenty-first century Taiwanese 'native soil' literature.' - United Daily News (Taiwan)
'Magical, fierce, pungent, and cruel.' - BIOS Monthly

Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with seven daughters, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man.

The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend.

Told in myriad voices--both living and dead--and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.

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