"Subway Station" Akane Oikawa / Zhihe He Price: ¥3,080 → ¥2,799 Paperback, 46 / 448 pages ISBN: 978-4-309-20934-0 Release Date: 2025.10.28 Is there no "happy ending" in life? Unemployment, debt, bullying, illness... People who choose to end their lives at the station, and Ye Yongan, a subway employee who works to prevent them. A hot topic from Taiwan depicting the recovery of unheard voices in the city. It's so difficult to hold onto life——. Unemployment, debt, bullying, illness... People who choose to end their lives at the station, and Ye Yongan, a subway employee who works to prevent them. Zhihe He, a writer who leads contemporary Taiwanese literature, depicts the recovery of unheard voices in the city. Winner of numerous awards, including the Taiwan Literature Award and the Eslite Bookstore Reader's Choice Award! Ye Yongan, 45 years old, lives with his teenage daughter and his elderly mother with dementia. Indecisive and passive in everything, he is the head of the subway suicide prevention project, and he must face people who are about to commit suicide on the subway platform. A salaryman who embezzled company money, a middle school student whose heartbreak was exposed on social media, an elderly person suffering from a chronic illness, a woman who lost the will to live despite being envied by those around her... Ye Yongan, who was appointed as the leader of the suicide prevention project, struggles to achieve results, but he cannot stop people from jumping off the platform. Even so, the warmth of the people who live their lives in the crowd, day after day, eventually warms strangers——A story that, even if small, will become a part of the power to move towards tomorrow for all those who live with problems that have no exit. The first Japanese translation of a storyteller who is also connected to Won-pyung Sohn's "Almond" and Han Kang's "Human Acts," which depict the distortions and oppression of modern society. Zhihe He delicately depicts the feelings of a middle-aged man, connects public transportation with the pulse of the times, and expresses various flows through the lives that intersect through the subway. The sense of flow is enhanced by a multi-voiced narrative and the alternation of narrative perspectives, resulting in a layered and extremely compelling work. The subway, a modern means of transportation, carries the anxieties of individual existence while supporting departure and return. What is most captivating in this book is the narrative that seems to be calmly observing, but harbors a kindness that "tries to understand." #AkaneOikawa #Akane_Oikawa #ZhiheHe #book #ForeignLiterature/Novels/Stories"