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After the mother and brother died one after another, only the demented old father and the single old son were left in the once perfect family. In "The Far Place I Will Go", the well-known writer Guo Qiangsheng chooses to cross the previous estrangement between father and son, honestly analyzes his inner uneasiness and agitation, and embarks on a journey of healing and repair. "Perhaps those who can still change are free." What Guo Qiangsheng did was change. In this work, Guo Qiangsheng talks about family relationships, the reconciliation and getting along with his elderly and demented father in the daily process of serving his father; he talks about others, about the life seen from the night market stalls and the city streets; he talks about himself, about the old collections in the boxes and the old tastes from his childhood. With his always gentle and affectionate writing, Guo Qiangsheng teaches people to refine those familiar, reassuring and non-disappointing memories in life experience, so as to serve as a true companion in the second half of life and guide the confused people in the city to the distance of life.

Lao Qi, who was once famous in the social circle, has entered middle age. After his close friend passed away from a serious illness, he still insists on guarding the "Melody" bar alone in downtown Taipei. Having been deeply hurt by a college student, he still feels sad about the love he has been pursuing for most of his life. Xiao Zhong was seduced by his classmate Yao in high school, which gave him his first taste of lust. He and Yao met again in college. Yao was surrounded by his good classmate A Chong and his senior sister Angela. The relationship between the four of them was complicated and ambiguous, seemingly fake but also real. Aaron, who works in a convenience store, silently protects his girlfriend Xiao Min. After saving enough money, the couple plans to open an imported clothing store together. He had been carrying a secret that made him confused and ashamed and refused to face it, until one day he found the owner of the bar opposite lying lying in the shop...

In the beginning, we were all just souls without bodies. God uses music to trick the soul into the body, and the soul loses its freedom. A piece of snow, a piano, and a person. "The Piano Seeker" is a pure and sad "musical novel" that uses "the piano" to explore the big question of "love". The gentle language of notes like cat prints plays a charming story, telling the soul belonging between people, music and emotions, which makes people nostalgic. Everyone has an innate resonance program. "The Piano Seeker" identifies the mysterious resonance of emotions, captures all the sighs and low echoes between the lines, considers the loneliness in the world and the loss of love, and forges the soul and body of love. Each sentence is like a musical note, precise and elegant, composing the melancholy of love and loneliness, just to pursue the resonance of the soul and the ultimate beauty of art without regrets.

When the deep love sparkles and the inescapable mood is as joyful as yesterday, the originally warm family starts a tearing showdown amidst the complicated oppression and entanglements: the brother who has traveled far away, the mother who passed away suddenly, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years, and who was He defrauded his father of all his money, and he began a period of unstoppable traveling between places... This is a very personal sacrifice by Guo Qiangsheng to himself, loneliness, native family, and love, recording the pains and marks, struggles and difficulties in the vicissitudes of life. Because of his candid and selfless self-disclosure, he not only wrote fifty years of stories in one year, but even dried them in the sun and left them with stains, which moved people's hearts and lungs invisibly. A few words can crush the pain and exude a gentle atmosphere in the deep brushwork.