Taiwan Travelogue A Novel
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Family Sharing
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Ja
Verkaufsrang
10554
Erscheinungsdatum
12.11.2024
Verlag
Graywolf PressSeitenzahl
320 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
5902 KB
Übersetzt von
Lin King
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781644453162
WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
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.
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So many layers!
Don't you just love when a book is cleverly constructed? The concept and idea of this book were so smart it surprised me and entertained me from page 1. Brilliant examination of colonial power, wrapped up in a story of two young women eating and flirting. Taiwan is now on my bucketlist! -
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Just the yearning of it all
Taiwan Travelogue is a historical novel about Japanese writer Aoyama Chizuko visiting Taiwan during its occupation by imperial Japan. She is assigned a local guide to show her the country's culture and delicacies. But while Aoyama devours local specialties like she knows no tomorrow, she notices a strange distance between her and her companion. A novel that leaves just enough unsaid while the reader slowly notices masterfully woven themes of colonial violence, the reification of local culture into tourist fare, and just the absolute worst kind of stolen-glimpses-around-corners lesbian romance. If you like food, if you love history, if you're still looking for that special kind of pride read, this is your book.
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