Swell HuayiRemembering ．從除魅到招魂

．從除魅到招魂

”—Cathy Park Hong

The capacity for either country to cross a fatal line grows daily

The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away is the longest piece in this collection and Oe’s most disturbing work to date

Swell HuayiRemembering ．從除魅到招魂Each story in Swell launches from the common but pivotal moments that determine the course of everyday life, but theyre often filtered through the perspective of someone else: documentarians, novelists, storytellers, gossips. Then, as the stories build atop one another and intertwine, they begin to shift and destabilize. Characters return but their histories are changed, alternate timelines open, and no one is ever who they were. Like an optical