Taipei

美籍台裔新銳作家林韜（Tao Lin）繼《咿咿咿》後，備受文壇矚目新作！

以寫實的手法，銳利呈現現代都市青年尋找自我的困頓。

跟著主角Paul從曼哈頓的藝文觀察一路來到他原生家庭的根──台灣台北。讀者將在此地見證一段關係的幻滅，而另一段透過網路開花的戀情，則會意外地在拉斯維加斯修成正果。

在這段漫長旅程中，無論是整夜行駛於東岸、到南方行竊、去西岸閱讀或是在俄亥俄州進入一家不怎麼樣的雜貨店，過程皆有攝影記錄。影片中也可見到大量毒品，以及一對年輕愛侶學習著如何分享彼此的生活。

這部彷彿在謳歌或是感嘆我們現在生活方式的一部小說，雖然不確定是否能為愛、生存、青春或身處在社會邊緣的人們提供任何確切的解答，但可以肯定的是，帶有半自傳色彩的《Taipei》將為讀者帶來最直接利索的閱讀體驗。（文／博客來編譯）

From one of this generation’s most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan’s art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family’s roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the way—whether on all night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill advised grocery runs in Ohio—movies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.