The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei by Chu T’ien-hsin, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Taiwanese, Translation
Four short stories and a longer novella are linked together to create a mosaic of disparate voices that share a visceral longing for a time – and place – forever past. Chu adroitly leads readers through...