Culture Talk

a Taiwanese novel won the Intl Booker and i'm claiming i read it first

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King. first book translated from Mandarin to win. £50,000 split between author and translator, which is how it should be tbh

it's a fake 1930s travel memoir by a japanese novelist on a food tour of taiwan who falls for her interpreter. so it's a food book AND a romance. sold.

who's reading it. who already read it and is about to be insufferable about it