Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi John Boom Healso reminds us of the

Healso reminds us of the simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of the past

was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels

Three witch sisters – Juniper

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Although he was never top of the class

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi John Boom Healso reminds us of theWinner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureWinner of the 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese LanguageDisguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power. Set in May 1938, the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where