The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1

 
　　台灣版《茉莉人生》，從平凡的小人物故事，窺看台灣重要的近代史；
　　媲美《在世界的一隅找到我》，以簡明優雅的畫風，溫柔填補台灣人的歷史傷痕。
 
　　本書主人翁蔡焜霖，出生於1930年代的台中清水，經歷過日本統治、國民政府來台、白色恐怖到解嚴後等時期。
 
　　他作過學徒兵，是台中一中品學兼優的好學生；因參加讀書會，他被羅織「參加非法組織」罪名，遭判刑10年、囚於綠島。出獄後，他於出版社和廣告公司任職；在出版審查極為嚴格的時代，他放棄高薪，創辦了保留台灣漫畫香火的《王子》兒童雜誌，並協助偏鄉的紅葉少棒隊至台北出賽，促成紅葉傳奇。退休後，則積極參與白色恐怖平反運動，推廣人權教育，是人人口中最親切、敬愛的「蔡前輩」。蔡焜霖漫漫的人生足跡，鏡射出近代台灣的縮影——有黑暗，但仍舊有光亮；歷經磨難，卻始終充滿力量。
 
　　《來自清水的孩子》是蔡焜霖的生命故事首次以「漫畫」呈現，由台東大學兒童文學研究所副教授游珮芸和長期創作繪本的周見信共同創作。
 
　　簡明優雅的筆觸和華、台、日語三種語言的運用，揉合悲歡離合，並靈巧地將時代再現。生動的情節、細膩溫柔的敘事，既展現小人物對大時代的無法控制，又突顯主人翁的恆毅。本書亦邀請台文作家鄭順聰擔任台語對白顧問、暨南國際大學歷史系助理教授翁稷安擔任歷史顧問。
 
本書包含：

第一冊－愛讀冊的少年
 
　　1930年代，日本統治下的台中州清水街，小男孩焜霖在童謠和圖畫書的陪伴下無憂地成長。然而，戰爭焰火逐漸沸騰，遊行、空襲、徵召......誰也無法置身於外。終戰後，這個認真學習ㄅㄆㄇ、熱愛讀冊的少年，以為總算迎來安穩生活，怎麼知道，更巨大的黑暗正在前方等著他......。
 
第二冊－綠島十年
　　1950年代，白色恐怖籠罩台灣，焜霖因為曾參與高中讀書會而被捕。某日清晨，他與其他一千多名政治犯們被船艦載至綠島，成為被政府教化的「新生」。酷刑、威嚇、勞動、聽訓，白色恐怖禁錮了焜霖十年的青春，也帶走了他摯愛的人......。

——中文書介摘錄自《來自清水的孩子 Son of Formosa 1：愛讀冊的少年》《來自清水的孩子 Son of Formosa 2：綠島十年》，慢工文化事業有限公司出版

FREEMAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
An incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times.

Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Qingshui, recounts a carefree childhood despite the Japanese occupation: growing up happily with the company of nursery rhymes and picture books on Qingshui Street. As war emerges Tsai’s memories shift to military parades, air raids, and watching others face conscription into the army. It seems no one can escape. After the war, the book-loving teenager tries hard to learn Mandarin and believes he is finally stepping towards a comfortable future; but little does he know, a dark cloud awaits him ahead.

Part Two: Taiwan, 1950s. In his second year at Taichung First Senior High School, Tsai is arrested simply for joining a book club and subsequently tortured, deprived of civil rights, and sent to Green Island for ＂reformation.＂ Lasting until his release in September 1960, Tsai, a victim of the White Terror era, spends ten years of his youth in prison on an unjust charge. But he is ready to embrace freedom.

Experience parts one and two of the tour-de-force graphic novel series that took Taiwan by storm - parts three and four coming May 2024.

P R A I S E

★ ＂The stupendous achievements here are many: a synergistic literary success; a historic record of twentieth-century Taiwan; the remarkable account of a boy’s life; and a triumph of translation.＂
--Booklist (starred)

＂A story of persistence, both hopeful and chilling, and a powerful vision of the personal implications of Taiwan’s mid-century history.＂
--School Library Journal

＂Stunning.＂
--Kirkus

游珮芸

 　　寫童詩、情詩，也愛朗讀詩。常早起到海邊、湖邊看日出、散步，也喜歡攝影。覺得世界上最美的是變化多端的朝霞和雲彩。
 
　　台大外文系畢業、日本御茶水女子大學人文科學博士，目前任教於台東大學兒童文學研究所，致力於兒童文學．文化的研究與教學，並從事兒童文學相關的策展、出版企畫、創作、翻譯與評論。
 
周見信

　　畢業於國立臺北藝術大學造形研究所，現就讀於國立台東大學兒童文學研究所博士班。在圖像創作、美術教育與兒童文學之間遊走。
 
　　2016年以《小白》獲得信誼幼兒文學獎圖畫書創作首獎，出版有《尋貓啟事》、《小小的大冒險》、《小松鼠與老榕樹》、《雞蛋花》、《小朱鸝》、《壹號月臺》等圖畫書。

Yu Pei-yun graduated from the Department of Foreign Language, National Taiwan University and holds a doctoral degree in Human Science from Ochanomizu University, Japan. Currently teaching at the Graduate Institute of Children’s Literature at National Taitung University, she is devoted to the studies of Children’s Literature and Culture. Yu also writes, translates, critiques, curates exhibitions about and plans the publication of children’s literature.

Chou Jian-xin holds a master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Children’s Literature at National Taitung University.