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How else can I think of the island?
Should I forget the island and grow old alone, or should I be embossed with the island in the last moments of youth?
★Zhang Yixuan’s special article recommendation:Should I forget the island and grow old alone, or should I be embossed with the island in the last moments of youth?
Lai Xiangyin's novels have long been the guardian spirit of a generation of literary people, just like their growing companions.
★New and revised version:
It completes the "Island" trilogy and witnesses the complete series of "Five Books of the Age".
"The Island" is a book of doubt,
Revealing the process of my drowning and struggle for generations,
It also leaves traces of my personal exploration of the times through literature...
──Lai Xiangyin
Under the calm and self-possessed surface, Lai Xiangyin's words hide subtle details, like a confused landscape in the fog. It is also subtle and quiet, as slow and long as prehistoric life.
When Taiwan lifted martial law in 1987, Lai Xiangyin published her first novel, beginning her intermittent and continuous literary creation. In "Island", a collection of novels that combine old and new works, the time span from the first "Frog" to the last "Rain Bean Tree" is as long as thirty years, thus connecting the different historical stages of Taiwan and weaving the author's story. A literary journey with ups and downs along the way.
Lai Xiangyin often draws from the lives of ordinary people, connecting and superimposing the trajectory of Taiwan's political, economic, social and generational life changes in the past thirty years. Turbulent political events become the background of the story, but they have such an impact on the people involved. All the suppressed pain is frozen in time and space, turned into words, striking at the vanity and desolation of the times.
Thirty years of speculation, in-depth exploration, and reorganization of history, topography, politics, and human nature have led to the creation of "Island," a novel and a profoundly emotional work of Spring and Autumn history.