★A coming-of-age novel, adapted from the movie See you: https://youtu.be/7QXv38fRpHc?feature=shared
★First Prize of the 43rd Excellent Screenplay Awards
★Named a “Recommended Reading for Primary and Secondary School Students” by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture
★Rights sold: Thailand

Thank you for your silent companionship that marked through our youth.
When I think about you, can I still find you?

Ting-a is my best friend.

Ting-a (Taiwanese dialect for iron nails) is called Ting-a and has nothing to do with iron nails. When he was young, his face always had one of those furuncle pimples. The pronunciation of furuncle is the same as Ting-a in the Taiwanese dialect. Since then, we nicknamed him Ting-a until he was sixteen.

Everyone said Ting-a jumped into the sea to commit suicide, but there he was, standing in front of me. He used sign language and said, “Hold me a Western funeral.” I have no idea what to do, whether it’s the Western funeral or dealing with all the problems in my life. Ting-a’s sudden appearances and disappearances must mean something.

To others, I might be ridiculous because I was talking and waving my hands and feet to thin air. People kept asking if I was ok as if I could not cope with Ting-a’s death. Honestly, I wish he could leave for good or return for real.

In the end, maybe I have realised the selfharm that I had been secretly inflicted on myself as Ting-a vanished and disappeared without a trace…

I want to find him.

I still have not fulfilled his wish. He wants to be the earnest Ting-a where he said in signal language, “Hold me a Western funeral.”

 

Shann-Jiun You (游善鈞), is a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. He was the consecutive winner of the First Prize for Lin Rong-San Literary Award for New Poetry. Additionally, he also received numerous other prestigious awards, such as China Times Literary Award, Chung Chao-Cheng Literary Award, Taipei Literature Award, Chou Meng-tieh Poetry Award, Hong Kong Youth Literary Award, and the HIM International Lyrics Competition.

He won the Excellent Screenplay Award three times and claimed the First Prize with See You.

Published workers included poetry collections like: Still Alive, The Emerging Soul from the Water, and long novels like Momentary Justice, Perfect Human, God’s Embodiment, and Flesh. His work has been featured in the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture’s Recommended Adaptation Scripts list and the Taiwan Literary Book Promotion.