EAST 12:3

Novelist, artist, and environmentalist Wu Ming-Yi (吳明益，1971-) provided the illustrations for the Taiwanese edition of his book The Man with the Compound Eyes ([2011] 2016). Combining fantasy and realism, the story portrays a community on the east coast of Taiwan. There a widow, a cat, aboriginal neighbors, butterflies, a young boy from a South Pacific island who has wandered to Taiwan through a vortex of trash, and many other characters both human and nonhuman all find their life journeys intertwining.

Illustration: Wu Ming-Yi

For the cover of the Complex Chinese Character edition (2016) of The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi.

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