1787703916 
Paperback Ghost town / Kevin Chen ; translated by Darryl Sterk.
Publication year: 2022
Format: Paperback
Publisher: London : Europa Editions,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781787703919 (pbk.) :
Notes: Translated from the Chinese. Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen's boyfriend. Told in a myriad of voices - both living and dead - and moving through time with deceptive ease, 'Ghost Town' weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.
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384 pages ; 21 cm
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