About the Comic Book

The Unseen Train is a graphic novel adaptation of Kan Yao-ming’s short story by the same name.
Pioneering neo-nativist author Kan Yao-ming has won many of Taiwan’s most prestigious literary awards. Known for tackling diverse subjects with his dynamic, transformative writing style, Kan has been called “an author with a thousand faces.”

Danger, suspense, and a sense of the surreal are interwoven in this story of the search for a man’s lost youth. Clues reveal themselves layer by layer, as Kan Yao-ming brings us into contact with the tragic shadows of Taiwan’s White Terror period.

Seal Hsieh, a talented writer of manga and graphic novel thrillers, and renowned comic artist Sen collaborated to masterfully adapt this story’s hallucinatory poetics in graphic novel form, filling the pages with mystery and suspense!

“Have you heard of the unseen train?”
“It’s the train that manifests people’s wishes, delivering them to the lands of their dreams.”

Grandpa told me a story from when he was young: he once took a train that isn’t listed on any schedules, an “unseen train” that takes you to the lands of your dreams. Years ago, when Grandpa was deep in the mountains producing camphor, this impossible train stopped at a tiny station in the middle of nowhere to bring him home to his grievously ill wife.

But then Grandpa disappeared for over twenty years. No one in our family ever spoke about his journey, and the unseen train never reappeared. So I searched tirelessly at that train station for the truth behind his story, trying to find the train that can’t be found...