Stories of Taiwan Reading Club Vol. 15 台灣小説讀書會
Schedule
Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+08:00Location
台北市萬華區艋舺大道110號1樓, Taipei, Taiwan 108028 | Taipei, TP
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Time: Wednesday, Sept 10, 19:00–21:00 時間：星期三 9月10日 晚上七至九點
Location: Daybreak 破曉咖啡 @ New Bloom 台北市萬華區艋舺大道110號1樓
📖 Selected Reading:
《子彈是餘生》寺尾哲也（第一、第二篇）
Spent Bullets by Terao Tetsuya (Stories 1 & 2) translated by Kevin Wang
Click on the links below to find the excerpts from the story collection.
可以藉由點選以下的連結來閱讀章節。已事先徵求過作者的允許。
📎《子彈是餘生》( “渦蟲 ∀ ” & “州際公路”） 原文閱讀連結：https://tinyurl.com/mr5fha4m
📎 Spent Bullets ( “Flatworm ∀" & “Interstate 5" ) English Translation PDF
https://tinyurl.com/4w5wwvpd
*經譯者和作者許可分享。
*Shared with permission from the translator and author.
🖊️ About the Event 活動介紹
Join our Short Story Club! Our Chinese-English bilingual group in Taipei meets every two months to discuss short texts in smaller, language-specific groups. Through our fun warm-ups and guided discussions, we hope participants may deepen their critical reading of the text while exploring literary, historical, political and cultural themes related to Taiwanese identity.
歡迎加入我們的短篇小說讀書會！此雙語讀書會在台北每隔兩個月定期聚集，以指定的語言小組模式來討論短篇作品。 通過我們的趣味暖身活動及引導討論，我們希望參與者可以藉此深化對於文本本身的批判閱讀能力，並且同時探討有關台灣的文學，歷史，政治，以及文化相關等議題。
📌 We are delighted to announce that both the author and the translator will be joining us for the event!
📌 我們很高興地分享，作者和翻譯者都將參加這次活動！
🖊️ About the Text 文本介紹
Spent Bullets is a collection of linked stories that spans Taipei and Silicon Valley, tracing the short life and long shadow of an engineering genius who descends deeper into despair while rising higher on the professional ladder. The characters in Spent Bullets are the golden children of Taiwan’s elite schools and America’s tech empires, conditioned to believe their worth is measured by suffering and success. At the center is Jie-Heng, a prodigy who can solve any logic problem—but not the problem of human relations. A young man with no center to ground him, he tries to fit in, yet fails to connect because of other people’s fear, misunderstanding, resentment, and obsessive adoration.
Jie-Heng’s most vital attachment is a perverse relationship with Wu Yi-Hsiang, a tormentor turned lover who offers a thin tether to reality. Wu Yi-Hsiang, fascinated by Jie-Heng’s intellect and anxious to please, becomes the keeper of Jie-Heng’s desire for debasement. When Jie-Heng’s yearning to embrace the void is realized, he leaves behind a host of unanswered questions, complicated feelings, and peers who carry his memory like a bullet in a glass case.
環繞著天才介恆的資優競賽圈友人們過著看似優越無瑕卻扭曲掙扎的人生。對於身陷生之地獄的他們，介恆是望塵莫及、又愛又恨的對象—他是大家頭頂上亟欲追逐的星光，卻也是那渺遠光點外吞噬一切的黑暗。
當介恆從拉斯維加斯賭場飯店二十三樓墜落，那段交雜嫉妒、慾望、忿恨、曖昧、羞辱、無力的悼亡之旅，才是所有故事真正的開端⋯⋯ 為什麼不費吹灰之力就能得到一切的天才要選擇自殺？當窮盡所有力氣都看不到車尾燈的對象選擇先行離場，那麼活下來還有什麼意義？而這些如影隨行的困境，是天才命定之必然，還是自尋煩惱的愚行？
🖊️ About the Author 作者介紹
Terao Tetsuya (寺尾哲也) graduated from National Taiwan University with a degree in Computer Science Information Engineering. He earned a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon and worked for eight years as an engineer at Google before quitting to write full-time. In 2023, his story collection Spent Bullets won the Taiwan Literature Awards’ Golden Book Award and the New Bud Award. His second book is an essay collection titled Striving is an Addiction, and an English translation is underway. He lives in Taipei.
昭和六十三年生，台大資工系畢。曾任 Google 工程師八年，待過 MTV、台北、東京。小說曾獲林榮三小說二獎，兩度入選九歌年度小說選。著作：《子彈是餘生》獲臺灣文學金典獎及蓓蕾獎。第二本書為散文集《努力是隱》，目前正譯為英文。
Event Details 活動訊息
✨ 主持人 Hosts: HL, Kevin, Rosalyn
✨ 討論語言 Discussion Languages: 英文、中文或雙語並用 English, Chinese, or bilingual
✨ 入場費 Entrance Fee: 100 NTD 來支持場地 to support the venue
📎《子彈是餘生》( “渦蟲 ∀ ” & “州際公路”） 原文閱讀連結：https://tinyurl.com/mr5fha4m
📎 Spent Bullets ( “Flatworm ∀" & “Interstate 5" ) English Translation PDF
https://tinyurl.com/4w5wwvpd
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台北市萬華區艋舺大道110號1樓, Taipei, Taiwan 108028, TaiwanEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
