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His is a world of waves, fish, clouds, and wind; a world of legends, tales, and indigenous knowledge; a world of words, that somehow, impossibly, capture the beauty and wonder of our relationship with the sea. His books are a homecoming for the soul. And, in a world increasingly dominated by cell phones, texts, and tweets, we need Syaman Rapongan more than ever. -- Michael Berry, author of <i>Speaking in Images</i> and <i>A History of Pain</i> Syaman Rapongan is one of Taiwan’s most vital literary voices. In his Eyes of the Ocean, the sea is not just a setting but a living presence—a teacher, a memory, a worldview. Through it, he crafts an archipelagic vision that challenges colonial and continental notions of identity and belonging. -- Gwennaël Gaffric, translator of the French edition of Liu Cixin’s <i>The Three-Body Problem</i> An impactful memoir about staying true to yourself and your community in the face of attempts at erasure. * Foreword Reviews *

His is a world of waves, fish, clouds, and wind; a world of legends, tales, and indigenous knowledge; a world of words, that somehow, impossibly, capture the beauty and wonder of our relationship with the sea. His books are a homecoming for the soul. And, in a world increasingly dominated by cellphones, texts, and tweets, we need Syaman Rapongan more than ever. -- Michael Berry, author of <i>Speaking in Images</i> and <i>A History of Pain</i> Syaman Rapongan is one of Taiwan’s most vital literary voices. In his Eyes of the Ocean, the sea is not just a setting but a living presence—a teacher, a memory, a worldview. Through it, he crafts an archipelagic vision that challenges colonial and continental notions of identity and belonging. -- Gwennaël Gaffric, translator of the French edition of <i>The Three-Body Problem</i>

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Syaman Rapongan is an acclaimed author who grew up on Pongso no Tao or Orchid Island. After spending more than a decade studying and working in Taiwan, he returned to his home in 1989, joining the local Indigenous social movement and protesting a nuclear waste facility, and turned to literature in the 1990s. He has also made documentary films, founded a workshop on oceanic ethnography, and crossed the Pacific Ocean in a canoe. Darryl Sterk is associate professor of translation at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has translated works by a number of Taiwanese writers, including Wu Ming-Yi’s The Stolen Bicycle (2017) and Kevin Chen’s Ghost Town (2022).

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