Tai Gu and other times

Author: Duokaikou
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Tai Gu is a place located at the center of the universe. If one walks quickly, it takes about an hour to travel from north to south through Tai Gu, and the same time from east to west. However, if someone walks slowly, observing everything along the way and thinking deeply, it would take a whole day to walk around Tai Gu at this pace, from morning till evening.
Tai Gu is a place, a fictional village in a remote corner of Poland. Its four boundaries are guarded by four angelic leaders: Raphael in the north, Gabriel in the south, Michael in the west, and Uriel in the east. The boundaries of Tai Gu are surrounded by an invisible and impassable wall—those who think they have left Tai Gu are trapped in a dream before this wall. When they wake up, they turn back home, mistaking the dream for a memory.
The people of Tai Gu village desire authenticity, and their souls exude the primal aura of the primordial era. Love and hatred are equally intense: Izydor loves Ruta with his lonely and primitive life—Ruta, the daughter born in a summer night's union between the (Mai'er) who nourishes the men of Tai Gu with her body and the Oubali tree that transforms into a handsome man. Ruta can see the invisible boundaries of Tai Gu, hear the pulse of the mycelial heart once every eighty years, and reach the center of Tai Gu. Ruta loves Izydor, and she tortures him endlessly in love. In the throes of desire, one lives alone, dies alone, and wanders alone. When Ruta crosses the boundary and heads to the distant, warm south, how can Izydor break free from the constraints of the four windows of the world...
Orla Doka presents a fragmented yet interconnected portrayal of the eighty-year transformation of a fictional village through eighty-four chapters, each titled with a different time. She reflects the context of all things' existence within this narrative. Her writing is light, poetic, and imbued with mythic resonance, like an eternal dream where the flow of life, love, and memory of time prevails.
Tai Gu is a place, located at the center of the universe. If one walks quickly, it takes about an hour to travel from north to south through Tai Gu, and the same time from east to west. However, if someone walks slowly, observing everything along the way and thinking deeply, it would take a whole day to walk around Tai Gu at this pace, from morning till evening.
Tai Gu is a place, a fictional village in a remote corner of Poland. Its four boundaries are guarded by four angelic leaders: Raphael in the north, Gabriel in the south, Michael in the west, and Uriel in the east. The boundaries of Tai Gu are surrounded by an invisible and impassable wall—those who think they have left Tai Gu are trapped in a dream before this wall. When they wake up, they turn back home, mistaking the dream for a memory.
The people of Tai Gu village desire authenticity, and their souls exude the primal aura of the primordial era. Love and hatred are equally intense: Izydor loves Ruta with his lonely and primitive life—Ruta, the daughter born in a summer night's union between the (Mai'er) who nourishes the men of Tai Gu with her body and the Oubali tree that transforms into a handsome man. Ruta can see the invisible boundaries of Tai Gu, hear the pulse of the mycelial heart once every eighty years, and reach the center of Tai Gu. Ruta loves Izydor, and she tortures him endlessly in love. In the throes of desire, one lives alone, dies alone, and wanders alone. When Ruta crosses the boundary and heads to the distant, warm south, how can Izydor break free from the constraints of the four windows of the world...
Orla Doka presents a fragmented yet interconnected portrayal of the eighty-year transformation of a fictional village through eighty-four chapters, each titled with a different time. She reflects the context of all things' existence within this narrative. Her writing is light, poetic, and imbued with mythic resonance, like an eternal dream where the flow of life, love, and memory of time prevails.