Alice is so distraught that she decides to end her own life. Her husband and son are missing, having disappeared while hiking in the mountains near their home. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a college professor, is overcome with grief. His chances seem slim, but just as it appears that hope is lost, Atile’i comes across a sprawling trash vortex floating in the ocean and climbs onto it. Following the custom of his people, he is set adrift as a sacrifice to the Sea God but, unlike those who have gone before him, Atile’i is determined to defy precedent and survive.
Here is the English-language debut of a new and exciting award-winning voice from Taiwan, who has written an “astonishing” novel ( The Independent) that is at once fantasy, reality, and dystopian environmental saga.įifteen-year-old Atile’i-a native of Wayo Wayo, an island somewhere in the Pacific-has come of age. When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people-an outcast from a mythical island and a woman on the verge of suicide-are united in ways they never could have imagined.
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