Multigenerational family sagas don't get more intense and operatic than 'Ghost Town.' The heart of Kevin Chen's novel is the coming of age of Keith, a gay man from a conservative town.
, a novel by Kevin Chen and the winner of the 2020 Taiwan Literature Award. Now translated into English thanks to Darryl Sterk,is reminiscent of the dreamlike narratives of Can Xue and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and will require readers to hold on tight to their sense of reality as the prose blurs lines between the living and the dead, the past and the present, and finally, the guilty and the innocent.
By the end of the first chapter, however, Keith reveals that he's murdered T, without saying how or why. After serving his prison sentence, Keith returns to Yongjing for the first time in many years. He grew up in one of those townhouses, the fifth from the left. ...The seventh was once a VHS video rental store, but now the whole building was charred black. There was a"For Sale" sign on the balcony. The place had been 出售"For Sale" for years. The top half of the second character 售 had fallen off, leaving a yawning 口"mouth" that transformed"For Sale" into"Way Out.
Despite the darkness of the material, the passion in the prose is unmistakable, and there are many lovely moments like this one, when Betty takes the train home for the climactic family reunion and feels herself becoming, in a way, a living ghost.
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