Name: The Pedestrian
SKU: 64785932
Price: 727.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Valerie Hsiung
ISBN: 9781643623115

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Nightboat Books

Author

Valerie Hsiung

Year

2026

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x13.3 cm

ISBN13

9781643623115

The Pedestrian

Valerie Hsiung (Author) · Nightboat Books · Paperback

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 28 Sep - 06 Oct

NT$ 727

NT$ 727

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Synopsis "The Pedestrian"

A poet’s novel, a body, a house, haunting and haunted by an unnamed horror.Emerging from the uncanny space of lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes require a more defective detective. To understand the source of this text’s trauma, the reader must become an emotional detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through obfuscation, suggestion, and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. The pedestrian operates like an inverted pastoral, turning kitchens into underworlds, sidewalks into sacred sites—it “listens” as much as it speaks, responding to forces beyond itself.

A poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement. Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text’s trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold—it “listens” as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.