feeLit 2025: Kevin Chen

From June 29 to July 12, feeLit - International Literature Festival Heidelberg will be hosting its authors at halle02 for the first time. This new festival venue will be all about books and writing. This year, feeLit presents national and international literary stars and brings authors together with their audience.

Kevin Chen - Twilight of the Ghosts

Moderation: Dr. Sara Landa
Language: English

Of ghosts, queerness and patriarchy - reading and discussion of "Geisterdämmerung" by author Kevin Chen and translator Monika Li

After serving a long sentence in a Berlin prison for the murder of his husband, the young Taiwanese man Tianhong returns to his home village in rural Taiwan. His return prompts the living and the dead to recount their lives and their entanglements in a world of friendship and violence, desire and repression, secrets and revelations, tradition and change. The novel is a mosaic of rural and urban Taiwanese and German society, of struggles and searches that reach across cultures and times.

In cooperation with the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University