Over 20 years ago, Taiwan was still under martial law, and single women could not leave the country except for business or study. I was young and wild, with a degree in Chinese, and had been working for a political magazine for a couple years when I and married my Turkish husband. This gave me the opportunity to go abroad-to Ankara, in the middle of Asia Minor.
二十多年前是除了商務與留學外，單身女子不准出國的戒嚴年代，我，一個中文系畢業、在政論雜誌工作了兩年的輕狂少女，因緣際會嫁給土耳其籍的外子，而飛越大漠，來到了小亞細亞中央的安卡拉。