The man with the compound eyes5/26/2023 ![]() Of course, it has its twist and turns, but there is not much more to it than that. That’s the concise introduction to the plot of Wu Ming-Yi’s brilliant Man With The Compound Eyes. ![]() When the trash vortex hits Alice’s remote stretch of Taiwanese cost, into Alice’s life, along with the styrofoam, plastic bags, condoms and dead sea turtles, Atile’i is swept. To make matters worse, the news reports that a gigantic trash vortex in the sea-the detritus of all the pacific civilisations-is being pushed towards Taiwan by the unstable weather. The home her husband and she had built on the shore is becoming submerged due to global warming induced sea rise her life with her son and husband are being physically and metaphorically swept away. ![]() ![]() Atile’i is one such second son.Īt the same time, Alice is mourning for her son and husband after they disappeared in the mountainous, forested heart of Taiwan. On the island of Wayo Wayo certain things are true: the Sea Sage knows all, the souls of suicides at sea turn into jellyfish, the people of Wayo Wayo came to live on their island after the sea god Kabang, mightiest of all gods, cast them out of their home in the sea and the second son of a family must leave the island forever when they turn fifteen. ![]()
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