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A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power.
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King.
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She has no interest in official banquets or the imperialist agenda; she longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese woman, younger even than she is and sharing the characters of her name, is hired as her interpreter. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko's travels all over the island and proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance.
Key Highlights Inside:
Award-Winning: A sensation on its first publication in Mandarin in 2020, it won Taiwan's highest literary honour, the Golden Tripod Award.
A Feast on Every Page: Train journeys, street food and home cooking across 1930s Taiwan.
History & Heart: Unburies lost colonial histories and reveals how power shapes our most intimate relationships.
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Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (legal name Yang Jo-tzu) is a Taiwanese writer of fiction, essays, manga and video game scripts, and literary criticism. Born in 1984 in Wuri, Taichung, she began publishing romance novels as a teenager and later turned to literary fiction, becoming known for historical fiction. She writes under a pen name meaning "twins", kept...