Transformative, wild, surprising and essential, these novels take on the most urgent story of our times. These are stories old and young, set in worlds real or imagined, that allow us to explore our connection to the natural world. A work of lyrical beauty that combines magical realism & environmental fable, The Man with the Compound Eyes is an incredible story about the bonds of. VINTAGE EARTH is a series of books that reveals our ever-changing relationship with the environment. The Man with the Compound Eyesbegins with a pretty bleak outlook for the first characters that are introduced. On their journey, memories will be challenged, an unusual bond formed, and a dark secret uncovered that will force Alice to question everything she thought she knew.

In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Atile'i and Alice retrace her late husband's footsteps into the mountains, hoping to solve the mystery of her son's disappearance. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is interrupted when a vast trash vortex comes crashing onto the shore of Taiwan, bringing Atile'i with it. Being the strongest swimmer and best sailor on the island, he sets out to defy destiny. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. South America gave us magical realism - what is Taiwan giving us? A new way of telling our new reality, beautiful, entertaining, frightening, preposterous, true.'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. two realms with a dizzying ease reminiscent of Haruki Murakami, twisting the dreamlike into the curiously credible' * Times Literary Supplement * 'We haven't read anything like this novel. The depiction of Atile'i's magical realm and his innocent wonder at this unfamiliar and murky world is imaginative and moving' - Trisha Andres * Financial Times * 'Shuttles between. A wonderful novel which deserves a very wide audience' - David Barnett * Independent on Sunday * 'Inventive narrative. I think this work will be a classic' - Hugh Howey, author of WOOL 'Frankly, astonishing.

It is a story about a middle-aged professor and writer who wants to die, and a young man exiled from an imaginary. I wept at the description of the dying whales and the approaching tsunami. The Man with the Compound Eyes is a translation, ably done by Darryl Sterk. Atilei is a second son, who must be sacrificed to the Sea God.

'A haunting and evocative tale, beautifully told. The Man with Compound Eyes by Wu-Ming Yi is a simple book dealing with complex issues.

The man with the compound eyes