Winner of the International Booker Prize 2026Disguised 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 helps her experience real island life and taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appe...

**WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power**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 imperial...

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 tutor English on the side. But this is mostly a front for her true obsession: Kagami, the cerebral master alchemist from her favorite anime.But Rina...

Freeman Book Award WinnerGLLI Translated YA Book Prize HonoreeAn incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times.Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Chingshui, recounts a carefree childhood ...

The "glorious" sequel to Freeman Award-winning The Boy from ClearwaterAfter his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he left off ten years earlier. He reconnects with his childhood crush Kimiko and finds work as an editor, jumping from publisher to publisher until finally settling at an advertising company. But when manhua publishing becomes victim to censorship, and many of his friends lose their jobs, Kun-lin takes matters int...

From the translator of the International Booker Prize-winning Taiwan Travelogue**,** Weeb is an unsettling, addictive novel about obsession, identity and the dangerous fictions we tell ourselves to belong.'It's invigorating to read a debut this assured, this invested in the big questions - without forgetting the reader's delight... I loved it.' Kaveh Akbar'Celebrates the w...

The only difference between fiction and memoir is Truth ...A MULTIPLE TAIWANESE AWARD WINNERTranslated by Lin King, translator of International Booker Prize-winner, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUEReader love for A PERFECT DAY TO PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE OVEN***** ‘Reading this made me fly back to my own past’***** ‘I enjoyed its tenderness. Like the protagonist at the end,

Freeman Book Award WinnerGLLI Translated YA Book Prize HonoreeAn incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times.Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Chingshui, recounts a carefree childhood ...

WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREMay 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.Soon a Taiwanese woman—who is younger than she i...

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 tutor English on the side. But this is mostly a front for her true obsession: Kagami, the cerebral master alchemist from her favorite anime.But Rina...

The only difference between fiction and memoir is Truth ...A MULTIPLE TAIWANESE AWARD WINNERTranslated by Lin King, translator of International Booker Prize-winner, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUEA genre-defying novel from a rare new international voice for fans of Lucia Berlin, Elena Ferrante and Han Kang as a writer gives up on fiction to explore the truth of her own youth.Faced with writer’s block, Tan’s attemp...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026High in the Accursed Mountains, in a village ruled by the ancient laws of the Kanun, Bekija escapes an arranged marriage by becoming a sworn virgin, renouncing her womanhood to live as a man. Her decision sets off a brutal chain of events, destroying her family and separating her from the one she loves the most. Years later, as Bekija – now Matija – tells their story to a visiting journalist, long-buried truths com...