Backed Against the Sea
A Novel

Wen-hsing Wang (Author), Edward Gunn (Translated by)

9780939657865

Hardback, published 28 February 2010

142 pages
24.1 x 16.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg

Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still stands as the most provocative and innovative narrative published in Taiwan over the past two decades.