![]() ![]() Wu’s rollercoaster of a story is about wilderness, wildness, wonderment, love. ![]() In the ensuing chaos, the Taiwanese print and TV media have a field day reporting this ecological calamity, and Taiwan - the story is set in the near future of 2020 - is never the same. ![]() As novelists often do, he concocted a “vision” based on the vortex: An Aboriginal teenager from the imaginary island of Wayo Wayo rides this garbage island and washes up with it one day on the east coast of Taiwan. Wu started writing the novel in 2006 when he read about the floating trash vortex in Chinese-language newspapers. ![]() The 300-page novel, which has an eye-catching cover for the new British edition, is about that same floating dump. to study the planet’s largest known floating garbage dump, about 1,000 miles north of Hawaii.”įast forward to 2013: Taiwanese nature writer Wu Ming-yi (吳明益) has just released an English translation of his The Man with the Compound Eyes (複眼人) that’s aimed at an international readership. Back in 2009, the New York Times published an article headlined “Recyclers, Scientists Probe Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” which noted that a group of scientists had “set sail from San Francisco Bay. ![]()
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