
Fiction
Sugar Bun Island
Introduction
2024 TLA Golden Book Award
The author lived on a Caribbean island for three years. She realized that the remote island nation and Taiwan both are located in the tropics or subtropics, were once colonies, and are home to people influenced by colonial cultures. So she wrote three short stories based on her memories and observations of life on the island. Reflecting various aspects of post-colonial society, the stories in this book describe how the intersection of cultures affects and is affected by human nature: the subtly superior attitude of a lower-class migrant worker toward her compatriots and immigrant neighbors after returning from a life abroad; a nation’s colonial legacy expressed as a white woman watching the world go on as usual after her death; and the outsiders who, regardless of their intent, change the fate of a mixed-race man for the worse. Lu Pin confronts cruel reality with poetic flare, these stories of a fictional island nation allowing us to rediscover ourselves.
The author lived on a Caribbean island for three years. She realized that the remote island nation and Taiwan both are located in the tropics or subtropics, were once colonies, and are home to people influenced by colonial cultures. So she wrote three short stories based on her memories and observations of life on the island. Reflecting various aspects of post-colonial society, the stories in this book describe how the intersection of cultures affects and is affected by human nature: the subtly superior attitude of a lower-class migrant worker toward her compatriots and immigrant neighbors after returning from a life abroad; a nation’s colonial legacy expressed as a white woman watching the world go on as usual after her death; and the outsiders who, regardless of their intent, change the fate of a mixed-race man for the worse. Lu Pin confronts cruel reality with poetic flare, these stories of a fictional island nation allowing us to rediscover ourselves.
Info
Category:Fiction
Author:Lu Pin
Publisher:INK Literary Monthly Co. Ltd.
Rights Contact:Ms. Chen
Email:jadefish0221@gmail.com
ISBN:9789863876632