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"Your body landed in a strange, theatrical posture beside the longan tree in front of your house. You were found, resuscitated, and sent to the intensive care unit. Your score on the Glasgow Coma Scale continues to drop."
A woman has fallen off the roof of her house in what was either a drunken accident or an attempted suicide and now lies in a coma. Over the course of the next seven days, the unnamed narrator watches over her while tracking the comments the incident has attracted online.
About the Author
Lamulu Pakawyan
is a member of the Puyuma indigenous tribe. She is either the winner or runner-up in every category of the Taiwanese Indigenous People’s Literature Prize, 2020: short story, poetry, essay and reportage.
About the Translators
Wen-chi Li
holds a post as the Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow at the University of Oxford, after completing Susan Manning Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and receiving his PhD in Sinology from the University of Zurich. He has co-edited the Chinese book Under the Same Roof: A Poetry Anthology for LGBTQ (Dark Eyes, 2019) and the volume of Taiwanese Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2023). As a translator, he works with Colin Bramwell to translate Decapitated Poetry by Ko-hua Chen (Seagull Books, 2023). He and Bramwell also received first prize in the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition for translating Yang Mu’s poetry. He is a co-founder of the “World Literature from Taiwan” series with Balestier Press.
Colin Bramwell
(b. 1990) is a writer and translator from the north of Scotland. He holds a doctorate in creative writing from the University of St Andrews. His poems have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, Magma, The London Magazine, Irish Pages, New Writing Scotland and elsewhere. His latest book is beyond, an edition of the Skye poet Aonghas Macneacail's unpublished English-language work (Shearsman 2024); his next, Fower Pessoas, will be published by Carcanet in early spring of 2025.