Fiction
Still Life in White 白色畫像
Introduction
* 2022 TLA Annual Golden Grand Laurel Award
May 19, 1949, the declaration of martial law in Taiwan initiates the White Terror – nearly four decades of intense surveillance, disappearances, and political oppression targeting local Taiwanese resistance to Chiang Kai-shek’s authoritarian rule. This collection of novellas stands out from other literary treatments of the period by foregoing the heart-wrenching cruelties and injustices in favor of unsentimental sketches of the struggle to maintain normalcy – the simple dreams, principles, and pursuits of ordinary life – in times of political repression.
May 19, 1949, the declaration of martial law in Taiwan initiates the White Terror – nearly four decades of intense surveillance, disappearances, and political oppression targeting local Taiwanese resistance to Chiang Kai-shek’s authoritarian rule. This collection of novellas stands out from other literary treatments of the period by foregoing the heart-wrenching cruelties and injustices in favor of unsentimental sketches of the struggle to maintain normalcy – the simple dreams, principles, and pursuits of ordinary life – in times of political repression.
Info
Category：Fiction
Author： Lai Hsiang-Yin 賴香吟
Publisher：INK Literary Monthly Publishing Co., Ltd. 印刻文學生活雜誌出版股份有限公司
Rights Contact：Ms. I-Li Chiang
Email：ink.book@msa.hinet.net
ISBN：978-986-387-507-9
