2012 Taipei Book Fair Award for Fiction 2011 China Times Open Book Award 2011 Asia Weekly Top Ten Chinese Novel of the Year
Private Eyes is a brilliant literary detective novel in which a failed-academic-turned-sleuth tries to make sense of the absurdity of modern city life and to prove his innocence in a series of murders. The first ever serial killer in Taiwan? A family scandal that leads to the corruption of the social health insurance system? A Buddhist fanatic who turns to killing people as a way to attain ‘salvation’? These are only part of the charm of this hilarious and darkly delicious novel.
2012 Taipei Book Fair Award for Fiction 2011 China Times Open Book Award 2011 Asia Weekly Top Ten Chinese Novel of the Year
Private Eyes is a brilliant literary detective novel in which a failed-academic-turned-sleuth tries to make sense of the absurdity of modern city life and to prove his innocence in a series of murders. The first ever serial killer in Taiwan? A family scandal that leads to the corruption of the social health insurance system? A Buddhist fanatic who turns to killing people as a way to attain ‘salvation’? These are only part of the charm of this hilarious and darkly delicious novel.