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Ghost Town 《鬼地方》
★ Best-selling Winner of the Taiwan Literature Award
★ A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2022
★ About Family, Taiwanese Superstitions, the Search of Identity, and Clash of Cultures
Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of nine, runs away from the oppression of his family’s 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 the 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 unfolds, the readers will learn what tore the Chen family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen’s boyfriend.
