# The Man with the Compound Eyes

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- Book: [The Man with the Compound Eyes](https://www.bookquiver.com/wu-mingyi/the-man-with-the-compound-eyes) ([The Man with the Compound Eyes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/wu-mingyi/the-man-with-the-compound-eyes.md))
- Authors: [Wu Ming-Yi](https://www.bookquiver.com/wu-mingyi)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-4580-288-0
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2015-03-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When a tsunami sends a massive island made of trash crashing into the coast of Taiwan, two very different people—an outcast from a mythical country and a woman on the verge of suicide—are united...