The Man with the Compound Eyes

By Wu Ming-Yi

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ISBN
9780307907967 9780307907974
Publisher
Pantheon


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Starred Review on March 15, 2014  |  Fiction

On Wayo-Wayo, an uncharted, floating Pacific Island, second sons are destined to canoe into the sea, to die. Such is the fate of gifted son Atile'i, but as death approaches, he lands on an immense floating island of trash. In Taiwan, Alice, a professor mourning her "disappeared" family, considers only suicide until a reprieve comes from—a cat. Then, in a "convergence of the twain," as the garbage island collides with Taiwan, Atile'i and Alice are almost literally thrown t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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