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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 its authentic cuisine.

The only difference between fiction and memoir is Truth ... A MULTIPLE TAIWANESE AWARD WINNER Translated by Lin King, translator of International Booker Prize-winner, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE A genre-defying novel from a rare new international voice for fans of Lucia Berlin, Elena Ferrante and Han Kang...

In this fiendishly funny and charming novel, a young woman revisits her childhood and realizes all was not as it seemed. Tan’s attempt to write her first novel is not going well. She tries to write a memoir instead, but this involves checking her own memories against her parents and old...

A recent college grad moves to Tokyo in pursuit of her all-consuming anime obsession, in a darkly humorous debut for fans of Colored Television and Big Swiss. Having recently graduated from a prestigious university, a young woman who goes by Rina moves to Tokyo to complete academic research and...