HC Hsu is author of Love is Sweeter: Stories (Lethe/Deerbrook) and Middle of the Night: Essays (Deerbrook), and translator of Steel Gate to Freedom: The Life of Liu Xiaobo (Rowman). He holds a PhD in continental philosophy, where he is interested in especially psychoanalysis, especially Jacques Lacan. His work appears in English and Chinese outlets, and his website can be found at hchsu.wordpress.com.
HC Hsu’s literary novel, Taiwan, will be released by Panhandle Creek Press on June 1st, 2027.
Description:
HE left home at seventeen. It was November 1948. One among millions fleeing the Chinese Civil War, Du Jiangbai began a thousand-mile journey to an island in the South China Sea, haunted by the past and uncertain about the future. SHE left home at seventeen. Determined to make it in the big city, Ye Yueyin saw the brutality of the new regime and looked suspiciously on mainlanders, who were changing day by day the place she grew up. They would meet in TAIWAN, HC Hsu’s literary novel. A story of love in wartime and one of the greatest political upheavals of the twentieth century, TAIWAN chronicles the life of a family in four decades through birth and death, marriage and estrangement, friendship and betrayal, and the institution of martial law and its inevitable lifting. It is a tale of ordinary people in extraordinary times—a testament to the brilliant joys and quiet pains, despair and hope, of a generation vanishing before the world’s eyes.