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"The tale induces in the reader a condition not unlike that of one who, benighted upon a lonely track, finds the earth clinging at every step, while from some unseen quarter there comes the measured sound of approach—steady, indifferent, and past a..."
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Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator,...
On a quest to explain how and why his father mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago, a writer embarks on an epic journey in search of a stolen bicycle and soon finds himself immersed in the strangely overlapping histories of the Japanese...
"Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world." Paris Review Best Books of the Year T he 15-million copy bestselling travelogue-memoir from legendary Taiwanese author Sanmao,...
