My Ulterior Homesickness
by Lin Junying
About This Novel
A novel "read to my grandmother" by Lin Junping, winner of the Taiwan Literary Golden Dictionary Award and the Golden Tripod Award. A male worker ant who has been fighting for many years in a real estate company escapes the workplace in search of a new life and begins to write life stories for the dead. Gradually, he is intertwined with the love between Aunt Mao Duan (Modern) and young Chen Jiazai a hundred years ago, as well as the legend of his family and even the vicissitudes of the entire Douzhen. The secret story of the empty house by the Dongluo River is gradually revealed... Let Aunt Mao Duan and young Chen Jiazai fall in love again, and let Douzhen live again. Contemporary workplace life and the ancient legend of Douzhen are like two rivers flowing forward separately, converging in the final chapter "My Unspeakable Nostalgia". Modern Chinese and the words recovered from the Hokkien dialect, the music and the music, are interdependent and perfectly combined, as the writer wishes, "flying with the soul of the reader." This book was published in a simplified Chinese version in 2013, and this time it is reprinted as an "annotated version". The author has made some annotations on some dialects of Douzhen, so that readers can more easily feel the quaintness and loveliness of the Hokkien dialects.
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