Taiwan Travelogue - Yang Shuang-zi He writes about his childhood

He writes about his childhood and teenage years

winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war

Out of their dialogues

But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything

Taiwan Travelogue - Yang Shuang-zi He writes about his childhoodDisguised 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 life and helps her to taste as much of cuisine as her larger than life appetite can bear. Original Language: