"Taiwan Travelogue" by Yang Shuang-Zi

For the meeting of August, we will discuss Protected content Booker Prize winner "Taiwan Travelogue" by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-Zi (translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King), first published in Protected content .

Description from Goodreads:
"A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power, it unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

May Protected content . 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..."

Description from Wikipedia:
"The book follows fictional Japanese writer Aoyama Chizuko's Protected content to Taiwan, and her developing relationship with her Taiwanese translator Chizuru.

The book is framed as Chizuko's autofiction originally published in Protected content derived from a travelogue she serialized in Protected content the trip, rediscovered and translated from Japanese into Chinese by Yang in the 21st century."

298 pages

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