later sorekara

Restoration after being broken, trekking for the rest of life

Lai Xiangyin's novel won the Golden Prize of Taiwan Literature

A literary model of speculative emotion and ethics

● Editor's Choice

☆ The dead are far away, how can the left behind move on? Lai Xiangyin thinks delicately from the perspective of a survivor, talking about trauma and healing, life and death. Facing the heavy questions of life, perhaps "Later それから" is a sincere answer.

☆ "Later それから" is a personal work, and it is also a work of the times. Lai Xiangyin expanded from a self-talking narrator to the life situation of his contemporaries, telling about the pursuit and breakup of various beliefs of Taiwan's "fifth grade generation" (post-60s). Through novels, we witness the profound scenery of the times.

☆ In creating this book, Lai Xiangyin upholds the writing ethics of restraint, carefully selects the presentation of content, and uses the genre of "fiction" to avoid the possibility of consuming reality and maintain a necessary distance. After reading "Later それから", we are full of respect, and fully reflect and speculate.

● Introduction

"So, it's not a book about May, it's about myself, what came and how I survived."

"Now, have I sailed through that depressed equatorial windless belt? Where am I going to go? Or, where am I coming back? The sails of writing have been drooping for a long time, the water and the sky are the same color, the fog is vast, and the magic of memory Shan, May, I think it’s not just that I accompanied her on a journey of gender identity, she also accompanied me on a very long journey of writing identity. Even in the years when she no longer existed, her image and her writing , It is a kind of comfort to me, but also a kind of sting. We used to oppose each other, but at the same time we played the role of listeners. Whether we are constantly climbing and pursuing, or constantly digging deep into our hearts, we argue, and finally understand and understand. There's not much conflict with each other."

● Celebrity recommendation

☆ One of the main achievements of "Later それから" is to open a platform for reflection on ethics and emotions with a meticulous and patient attitude-this platform is a space where readers can also participate in speculation. This kind of platform is rare in existing Taiwanese literature, and it is especially precious.

——Ji Dawei (Taiwanese novelist)

☆ In terms of function, "Later それから" obviously has reasons why it has to be regarded as a novel. It simply requires the reader's expectation of the novel as fiction. It needs to be seen as fiction and fictionalized in reading to create an imaginary distance between the subject and the event.

——Huang Jinshu (Mahua Chinese literature writer)

☆ We who are too romantic must have died once when we were young. After such a death, when you look back, what you see will be different... Be proud of your determination to get back your right to write, because this is a story of an era, about how you survived, not about The story of why someone died.

——Guo Qiangsheng (Taiwanese writer)

☆ This is a book that has been slowly accumulated over time. Some parts are surprisingly well written. The maturity of her writing and this work can answer many questions, including the premature death and rupture of the fifth grade generation; it can answer a How female writers go through emotion, trauma, and death, or how to experience the death of a gay friend, and then return to writing from negative writing.

——Zhou Fenling (Taiwan essayist)

☆ The novel "Later それから" is not a secret, not an autobiography, not an insider story, nor a confession or confession, not just a confession, but only in the literary republic of the novel can there be the meaning of carnival and public noise. We let go of the arms of paranoia, prejudice, and established impressions, and follow the novelist's train of thought, in a trance, summoning the silent dead to complete the inner journey together. I want to say that it is the courage of the living to bear the burden of righteousness for Lai Xiangyin to come out after writing "Later それから", and it is the heart of "Ji Zha Hanging the Sword" that is as sun and moon as the sun and the moon.

——Lin Junying (Taiwanese novelist)

● Awards record

☆"Later それから" won the 2012 "Taiwan Literature Award" Golden Award for Books and Novels.