Backed Against the Sea (Ceas) by Wen-Hsing Wang

Cornell East Asia

Backed Against the Sea (Ceas)

Wen-Hsing Wang with Edward Gunn (Translator)

142 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction classics literary reflective sad slow-paced
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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 o...

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