Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi memoir unsettling best

unsettling best

with a past she is trying to forget

with a highly original journey into darkness and night' - Stephen Moss

and the brilliant science populariser Robert Chambers

and whether it was worth it

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi memoir unsettling bestWinner of the 2026 International Booker PrizeWinner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureDisguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power. Set in May 1938, the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where her interpreter proffers tantalising glimpses of island