Taiwan Travelogue

Set in 1930s Taiwan under Japanese rule, the novel follows a Japanese novelist on a food-filled lecture tour of the island and her growing closeness to the local woman hired as her interpreter. It plays with the form of a rediscovered memoir, complete with translator's notes. Lin King's translation had already won the US National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2024. Author Yang Shuang-zi and Lin King share the prize equally.