OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
作者：Yu, Pei-Yun/ Zhou, Jian-Xin(ill.)/ King, Lin(tr.)
出版社：Levine Querido
年份：2023
ISBN：9781646142804
書號：20305192
裝訂：平裝
定價：$700
優惠價：$595元
台灣版《茉莉人生》，從平凡的小人物故事，窺看台灣重要的近代史；
媲美《在世界的一隅找到我》，以簡明優雅的畫風，溫柔填補台灣人的歷史傷痕。
本書主人翁蔡焜霖，出生於1930年代的台中清水，經歷過日本統治、國民政府來台、白色恐怖到解嚴後等時期。
他作過學徒兵，是台中一中品學兼優的好學生；因參加讀書會，他被羅織「參加非法組織」罪名，遭判刑10年、囚於綠島。出獄後，他於出版社和廣告公司任職；在出版審查極為嚴格的時代，他放棄高薪，創辦了保留台灣漫畫香火的《王子》兒童雜誌，並協助偏鄉的紅葉少棒隊至台北出賽，促成紅葉傳奇。退休後，則積極參與白色恐怖平反運動，推廣人權教育，是人人口中最親切、敬愛的「蔡前輩」。蔡焜霖漫漫的人生足跡，鏡射出近代台灣的縮影——有黑暗，但仍舊有光亮；歷經磨難，卻始終充滿力量。
Freeman Book Award Winner
GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Honoree
An incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times.
Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Chingshui, recounts a carefree childhood despite the Japanese occupation: growing up happily with the company of nursery rhymes and picture books on Chingshui Street. As war emerges Tsai's memories shift to military parades, air raids, and watching others face conscription into the army. It seems no one can escape. After the war, the book-loving teenager tries hard to learn Mandarin and believes he is finally stepping towards a comfortable future; but little does he know, a dark cloud awaits him ahead.
Part Two: Taiwan, 1950s. In his second year at Taichung First Senior High School, Tsai is arrested simply for joining a book club and subsequently tortured, deprived of civil rights, and sent to Green Island for "reformation." Lasting until his release in September 1960, Tsai, a victim of the White Terror era, spends ten years of his youth in prison on an unjust charge. But he is ready to embrace freedom.
Yu Pei-yun graduated from the Department of Foreign Language, National Taiwan University and holds a doctoral degree in Human Science from Ochanomizu University, Japan. Currently teaching at the Graduate Institute of Children's Literature at National Taitung University, she is devoted to the studies of Children's Literature and Culture. Yu also writes, translates, critiques, curates exhibitions about and plans the publication of children's literature.
Chou Jian-xin holds a master's degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Children's Literature at National Taitung University.
Lin King is a writer and translator from Taipei, Taiwan. Her work has appeared in publications including Boston Review, Joyland, Asymptote, and Columbia Journal, and has won the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She translates from Mandarin Chinese and Japanese to English, and her translation of Yang Shuang-zi's Taiwan Travelogue is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.
