Lead Review

• Book: The Man with the Compound Eyes
• Location: Taiwan
• Author: Wu Ming-Yi

“We haven’t read anything like this novel. Ever. South America gave us magical realism – what is Taiwan giving us? A new way of telling our new reality, beautiful, entertaining, frightening, preposterous, true. Completely unsentimental but never brutal, Wu Ming-Yi treats human vulnerability and the world’s vulnerability with fearless tenderness.” (Ursula Le Guin)

“A haunting and evocative tale, beautifully told. I wept at the description of the dying whales and the approaching tsunami … I think this work will be a classic.” (Hugh Howey, author of WOOL)

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