CHOPSTICKS

CHOPSTICKS is a unique collaboration between five award winning and bestselling writers from Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong. They use urban legends , folklore , history , and myth to create a stunning work of
Asian weird fiction . In addition to foreign sales , there is already a spin off manga adaptation as well as huge
interest in film TV rights

*Instant #1 bestseller in Taiwan
*An unprecedented international collaboration between writers from Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
*For fans of DETENTION and Asian horror movies
*Official “Books from Taiwan” Selection

Chopsticks: simple, ingenious, essential. A central and utterly unremarkable feature of life in East Asia. A symbol so powerful it is almost invisible – that is, until five authors invoke it as a central theme for five stories of horror and suspense.

Japanese author Shinzo Mitsuda opens the book with a kaitan about a young schoolboy who is seen at lunchtime performing a wish ritual before a pair of chopsticks stuck into his rice, which promises to bring a response from the spirits world. Taiwanese author Xerses echoes the schoolyard setting in her chapter, in which a boy who wears a pair of coral chopsticks around his neck finds himself the center of female attention. Under the female protagonist's searching eye, his relationship to his chopsticks – and the divine power they store – does not stay secret for long.

Hong Kong writer Jetauzi turns things even darker in her tale of a famous YouTuber who is poisoned while livestreaming, and his girlfriend's quest to uncover his killer. But all three stories come to a surprising climax in Xiao Xiang Shen's fourth chapter, which weaves them together in a single tale of dark intrigue that ends with a bitter twist. Finally, award-winning author Chan Ho-Kei brings everything back to his native Hong Kong, rewriting history and transforming the backstory into a brilliant mix of science fiction, Chinese mythology, and Lovecraftian horror.