作者：Sabrina Huang 黃麗群出版社：Strangers Press出版日期：2024-11語言：英文ISBN/ISSN：9781915812674裝訂方式：平裝 頁數：42頁開數：21 x 13 x 0.4 cm開類別：精選書展 > 國內外文學創作
Sabrina Huang 黃麗群Sabrina Huang was born in 1979 in Taipei, and studied Philosophy at National Chengchi University. Her books include the essay collections Song Behind My Back, Things that Feel a Bit Extravagant and Me and the Cat are Staying Home, and the short story collection The House by the Sea.
Lin KingLin King is a writer and translator from Taipei, Taiwan. Her writing has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations from Mandarin and Japanese into English include Yang Shuang-Zi’s novel Taiwan Travelogue (Graywolf, 2024) and the historical graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater (Levine Querido, 2023-2024) by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin. Lin holds degrees from Princeton University and Columbia University, where she has taught undergraduate writing.
"The key is not to be misled by objects or ornaments that seem overtly symbolic, or pay too much attention to things in prominent locations... such decorations are just fragmented marginal sensory information and as such can't be translated into coherent output."Set in an unspecified dystopian future in which people known as ‘Proxies’ are paid handsomely to remove negative emotions from their clients, Peacock, a successful Proxy, trains her son Sky to join the profession.