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他們一直在監視我。

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造成問題的，是沉默，而非話語。
事實的真相為何？存活下來的人，是幸運的？抑或是不幸的開端？

一九四七年二月二十八日，一場抗爭撼動了台北城，整座城市進入戒嚴狀態。而我，是在鎮壓的第一晚出生。
接下來幾個星期，國民黨開始強力鎮壓反對聲浪，
每天、每個家都有男人開始失蹤，
一九四七年三月十四日，我的父親失蹤了……

十年後，一個陌生男人敲響我家大門。是我失蹤的父親。而這個家，因他的歸來掀起另一風波。
父親的回來象徵著什麼？他做了哪種惡魔式的交易？他是叛徒，還是是複雜的英雄？而當權者又答應拿什麼來和父親交換？

時空橫跨六十年、步履遍及台灣與美國；經歷二二八、戒嚴、中美斷交、白色恐怖、解嚴到SARS。藉由身繫囹圄、抑鬱無奈的父親、堅毅不拔的母親、試圖拯救家人們遠離迫害的女兒，如何在各自的堅強與磨難中，面對威權的脅迫、禁制、監控和逃亡，以及在人性的背叛猜疑中掙扎。

這本書很黑暗，但我認為，它終究還是傳遞了希望的訊息，讓人們知道改變是可能的。
──楊小娜

Taipei, February 28, 1947: As an uprising rocks Taiwan, a young doctor is taken from his newborn daughter by Chinese Nationalists, on charges of speaking out against the government. Although he eventually returns to his family, his arrival is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community. Years later, this troubled past follows his youngest daughter to America, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family—the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before. A stunningly lyrical story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, Green Island raises the question: how far would you go for the ones you love?

本書中文書介出自《綠島》印刻文學生活雜誌出版有限公司出版