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Born and based in Taiwan, Wu Ming-Yi combines writing with environmental activism. His novel brings ecological crisis into conversation with personal loss. Huang Chun-ming's stories appear alongside queer fiction by Qiu Miaojin and Chu Tien-wen. Yang Shuang-zi and Wu He turn attention to the island's history, language and memories of violence against Indigenous communities.
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A floating island of rubbish reaching Taiwan brings together a castaway and a grieving woman.
Original title: 複眼人 (Fuyan ren)
Vintage · 2015
Translated by Darryl Sterk
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A student diary and a grotesque crocodile narrative explore queer coming of age in Taipei.
A gay narrator confronts a friend’s death and reflects on love, culture and his place in Taiwan.
Stories of workers and provincial communities expose the costs of Taiwan’s modernisation.
A narrator investigates an Indigenous community’s memory of the Wushe massacre and challenges convenient historical narratives.
A Japanese writer and Taiwanese interpreter travel through the colonial island as food and friendship reveal unequal power.
An epistolary novel about two women’s broken relationship, solitude and life between cultures.
A search for a missing father’s bicycle opens onto family memory and Taiwan’s wartime history.
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