Boncha girl

A girl with seven names meets a young man who only talks to trees

Pure love, country legend, catastrophe

Sweeping all awards in Taiwan's literary circles

Mo Yan commented that "such a writing style is shocking"

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◎ Editor's Choice

☆"Bangcha Girl" is another representative work of Gan Yaoming, a representative writer born in Taiwan after the 1970s, who broke through "Killing Ghosts". From "Killing Ghosts", "Buncha Girl" to "Summer When General Winter Comes", Gan Yaoming re-portrayed Taiwan's history of nearly a hundred years in three novels. Gan Yaoming has won almost all literary awards in Taiwan, and is considered a representative figure of the "New Hometown" in Taiwan's literary world. , Aboriginal cultural elements are mixed, and it has the reputation of "a writer with thousands of faces", and has also been praised by Mo Yan for "such a writing style is astonishing".

☆Since "Boncha Girl" was published in Taiwan in 2015, it has swept all major literary awards in Taiwan. The author conducted long-term research for writing this book. He went to the location of the story many times, Lintian Mountain in eastern Taiwan, collected various aboriginal myths and local rural legends, interviewed local lumberjacks, firefighters, small train drivers, and bartenders. Accumulated profound knowledge about the operation of logging forest farms, life in dormitories, cage transportation, etc., so I can use words to perfectly reproduce the time and space background of the whole story with interesting, lively and colorful writing styles, without any fuss Mark of.

☆The story of "Bangcha Girl" takes place in "Morisaka", a logging forest farm covering 68 mountains and more than 40 million trees. There are nearly 3,000-year-old trees, sambars captured for sale, There are yellow dogs carrying the soul of clouded leopards, and there are people whose bodies and spirits are full of scars. In this beautiful forest home, Gu Axia, who has the resilience of the wild grass spirit, and Pajiru, who insists on dialogue with nature and does not use chainsaws to log, are facing a sad and heavy history of the entire island. What "Boncha Girl" presents to readers is not only a simple and timeless love, but also a gentle song that is like a fable, weeping and singing between nature and human beings.

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◎ Introduction

"How long have you walked?" "One sun, one moon, one river, six mountains."

In Taiwan in the turbulent 1970s, Gu Axia, an Amis girl who has seen the darkness of human nature, hid in the stairwell of a restaurant for five years. One day, she finally followed Pajilu, the "killer king" who suffers from autism and can't speak. To a new home: forest farm "Morishaka". Together with him, she raised funds to restore the school, visited schizophrenic veterans, mourned teachers who were victims of politics, and came into contact with the spirit of faith in saving lives. Faced with various tests: heavy rain and wind, forest fires, mountaineering and snowstorms, the little people wrote a legendary story of their own perseverance and gentleness with their lives.

This book also describes the tragedy of the era of white terror of the Chiang Kai-shek regime, and the scene of wild logging of mountains and forests after entering the era of chainsaws, and presents the little-known history of the island from the side.

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◎ Celebrity recommendation

Such writing is amazing!

——Nobel Prize-winning writer Mo Yan

Zooming in on the level of Taiwanese novel history, "Buncha Girl" is more likely to have a monumental significance: perhaps this will be a signal that the third wave of large-scale realism in Taiwanese novels is about to hit. (The first time was in the 1920s, when the new literature was beginning to sprout; the second time was after the local literature debate in the 1970s, and the tide of local novels before the lifting of martial law and the impact of "postmodernism".)

——Literary critic Zhu Youxun

"Buncha Girl" is like the Taiwanese version of Forrest Gump, showing great intentions and writing power.

——Poet Luo Zhicheng

The texture of Gan Yaoming's novels has a vigorous luster, but also contains gentle emotions. In terms of narrative skills, it fully demonstrates the charm of language as a "storyteller". "Boncha Girl" is undoubtedly a self-challenging work, reaching a new peak in the art of fiction.

——Novelist He Jingyao

Embedding big narratives and historical events into the timeline of the novel must look good, but it is not ingenious, and it is a test of skill. And Kam Yaoming's "Buncha Girl" has a very gentle story line. I think the reason why it is so charming is the atmosphere of the text. From Gan Yaoming's previous works, one can read very poetic language, as well as the use of slang and dialect, while the words in the new works are very restrained and transparent.

——Chen Mingrou, a Taiwan literature researcher

After reading "The Bangcha Girl", I was pleasantly surprised to find that Gan Yaoming not only had a rich and happy childhood, but he must also have an adolescence full of curiosity and practical adventures, and entered into adulthood with passion for life and a thirst for knowledge . It is manifested in the novel, which also makes the style and connotation of the work both continuation and repeated breakthroughs, childish dreaminess and sophistication; under the laughter and joy hides a huge knowledge system and simple but profound wisdom.

——Taiwan aboriginal writer Ba Dai

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◎ Awards record

☆ Included in the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair Taiwan Pavilion book list

☆ 2016 Taipei International Book Fair Award

☆ The 6th Dream of Red Mansions Awards Final Jury Award

☆ 2016 Golden Tripod Award Literary Book Award

☆ Novel Gravity: Chinese International Internet Platform 2001-2015 Chinese novels 20

☆ 2015 China Times Open Book Book of the Year

☆ 2015 Taiwan Literature Golden Award