Wanderer
by Zhu Tianxin
About This Novel
"Wanderer" includes five novels written by Taiwanese novelist Zhu Tianxin before and after his father's death, plus an essay "The Author and Me". The writing took nearly three years from the end of 1997 to the late autumn of 2000. This is a book of death, and it was death that directly initiated this writing. The daughter's grief turned into a wandering that was constantly bifurcated, thinking and reality were weightless: a strange and lost journey along the Mediterranean coast, building a paradise-like town in a dream, walking on the Tinker Bell Galaxy Railway in the movie, falling into the cave of childhood memories on the island, and accompanying her father to prune roses... The dead left like migratory birds, and the living were left behind and stayed on the ground, walking step by step, traveling to the ends of the world to find the possible habitat of the deceased. The five novels are like a movement with an ups and down rhythm, a dream with flashbacks, connected into a dense long structure.
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