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8 reviewsWinner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Winner of the 2021 Golden Tripod Award
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, & power
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, & 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 & 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, & who shares the characters of her name—is hired as her interpreter & makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko's travels all over the Land of the South & also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides & braised pork rice, lively banter & 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 & won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories & deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.
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“Beginning in a world as solid & stately as Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters, this wise & wily novel deftly takes the reader down a rabbit hole as filled with longing & misunderstanding as Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch.”—Marie Mutsuki Mockett
