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In Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin's Faraway, a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his comatose father home. Lo's father had fled decades ago, abandoning his first family to start a new life in Taiwan. After travel between the two countries becomes politically possible, he returns to visit the son he left behind, only to suffer a stroke. The middle-aged protagonist ventures to China, where he embarks on a protracted struggle with the byzantine hospital regulations while dealing with relatives he barely knows. Meanwhile, back in Taiwan, his wife is about to give birth to their second child. Isolated in a foreign country, Lo mulls over his life, dwelling on his difficult relationship with his father & how becoming a father himself has changed him.Faraway is a powerful meditation on the nature of family & the many ways blood can both unite & divide us. Lo's depiction of family dynamics & fraught politics contains a keen sense of irony & sensitivity to everyday absurdity. He offers a deft portrayal of the rift between China & Taiwan through an intimate view of a father-son relationship that bridges this divide. One of the most c

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Author

Lo Yi-Chin, Jeremy Tiang (translation)

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231550581

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Fiction, Literary Fiction