在此想感謝在背後支持我的讀者，其中一位竟自發將我的《捉姦》譯成英文，為了推廣外國朋友知道香港有這麼一位的小說作家——作家是他語言的囚徒，這等同讓我提早假釋了。這位讀者把我抬得比莫言還要高：
//I have read two very interesting books written by a young Hong Kong author. They are unique and good. I think they are more interesting than those written by the Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan. I think the author's good work should be promoted to the world as a Hong Kong cultural product in the context of global arena. I hope they can be translated into English and being published in English. Please see if you can help and/or may think of anyone can help.
The two books have very interesting themes and the author is actually writing his third book.
The first book was about crossing/switching between reality and dream of the lives of a Hong Kong journalist and a Syrian militant grown up in the UK. So there was war life of a military troop in the Islamic world vis-a-vis peaceful and remote family life in Hong Kong. Explore value of existence, brotherhood. First published in 2015 in Hong Kong.
The second book was about a team of victims and police led by a neurologist catching a rapist who could voluntarily go into other people's dreams and rape them. Also have crossing/switching between dreams and reality, the butterfly effect, Matrix and Inception kind of settings, juicy, mind blowing and explore deeply into desires and moral values. First published in 2018.
I have actually translated the first chapter of the more juicy book at leisure. But it was not good translation as I am not a native English speaker. But it maybe useful to help you get a feel of his books. Let me know if you are interested and whether there is anything you can help to make it happen.//
容我不自謙吧，香港也需要一些比莫言還厲害的作家，讓世界見證這個地方除了是一個搵錢地方之外，還能創作出融匯世界文學的作品，不是嗎？如果你心目中有這麼的一些香港作家，希望你也能以同樣的心推廣他們，因為取得一地之民的認同，作家才可代表那地邁向世界。
不過，現實往往相反，好些作家總是享譽國際之後才得到他的同胞收留，可能是物離鄉貴吧。貢布羅維奇不回波蘭，昆德拉不回捷克，不是他們選擇了流亡生活，而是只有他方能令他們的作家生命復活過來；在本鄉無人問津的作品，總是從外國回流之後才被人發現它馨香。我常凝視這悲涼，除了默默地寫，也沒有他途了。
《捉姦》聽聞已經在市面上絕版了，我沒有婉惜，因為在懷胎之時已預知它會早夭，或許我跟出版市場不夾吧，我寫的東西不夠「流行讀物」，但這就是追求永恆的代價。或許你喜歡我僅出於喜歡我的政治觸角和分析，在我眼中這是對流行的一種服侍、知識分子的義務，但相比小說，它應該係次要的，因為生命若不高於政治生命，又何談政治服侍生命呢？
然而，實情係相反，現在我們的生命，被降服於政治之下，被壓縮成唯有政治的單一維度，這種削平，亦方便暴政易於管治，因為除了政見之外，人便沒有意見剩下了。所以，我很希望你感受到這種迫切，政治之外你不能一無所有，只有一無所有的人，才需要靠不斷發動政治鬥爭來肯定他的存在價值。那非政治的抗爭呢？我們有為此抗爭過嗎？
牢騷太多了。多支持你身邊的創作者，也努力跟未認識的一一相遇。香港的地方文藝需要你們作後盾。
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