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Yáng Shuang-zi Taiwan Travelogue (Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Fiction
- EAN
- 9781644453155
- ISBN
- 9781644453155
- Release Year
- 2024
- Publication Name
- Taiwan Travelogue
- ISBN-10
- 1644453150
- Title
- Taiwan Travelogue
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Release Date
- 12/16/2024
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1644453150
ISBN-13
9781644453155
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11064994371
Product Key Features
Book Title
Taiwan Travelogue : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Lgbt / Lesbian, Literary, Historical, Linguistics / General
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-014011
Reviews
**A 2024 National Book Award Finalist** "Reading the book is like peeling an onion: the smell is at first undetectable; but with each layer you peel, the smell gets more intoxicating, pungent, intense, and at the very end, it brings tears to your eyes." --Christina Ng "Yang Shuang-zi's novel, a runaway bestseller in Taiwan, ranges from playful and intimate depictions of the lush countryside of Taiwan to the ordered world of the colonial city. But what at first feels like a simple travelogue is actually an examination of an often-overlooked period of East Asian history and of the human heart. This wise and wily novel, as self-aware as it is provocative, ultimately goes down like the luscious soup dumplings that appear in its pages and sent me scrambling for takeout. But what does it mean to eat someone else's food, and what is the nature of a relationship when any kind of power is involved? Beginning in a world as solid and stately as Kawabata's The Makioka Sisters, Taiwan Travelogue deftly takes the reader down a rabbit hole as filled with longing and misunderstanding as Sarah Waters's The Night Watch ." --Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of The Tree Doctor "Yáng offers rich reflections on colonialism and translation along with delightful depictions of Taiwanese delicacies." --Publishers Weekly, "Reading the book is like peeling an onion: the smell is at first undetectable; but with each layer you peel, the smell gets more intoxicating, pungent, intense, and at the very end, it brings tears to your eyes." --Christina Ng "Yang Shuang-zi's novel, a runaway bestseller in Taiwan, ranges from playful and intimate depictions of the lush countryside of Taiwan to the ordered world of the colonial city. But what at first feels like a simple travelogue is actually an examination of an often-overlooked period of East Asian history and of the human heart. This wise and wily novel, as self-aware as it is provocative, ultimately goes down like the luscious soup dumplings that appear in its pages and sent me scrambling for takeout. But what does it mean to eat someone else's food, and what is the nature of a relationship when any kind of power is involved? Beginning in a world as solid and stately as Kawabata's The Makioka Sisters, Taiwan Travelogue deftly takes the reader down a rabbit hole as filled with longing and misunderstanding as Sarah Waters's The Night Watch ." --Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of The Tree Doctor
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
895.136
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko 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--who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name--is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko's travels all over the Land of the South and also 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 and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It's only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the "something" is. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan's highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.
LC Classification Number
PL2971.S58T3513 2024
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