8 Fantastic Books From (And About) Taiwan

there is an intense beauty to the language it is poetry from beginning to end this is poetry kind of like a shakespeare play where every single line more or less is beautiful in some way there isn't a wasted word here it's incredible

flights is one of my favorite novels ever and after i read flights i did think back to this

so yeah it's a it's a general history of taiwan over the last 100 200 years and it's easy to read it's pretty condensed easy to follow

hunter school is awesome very enlightening i didn't even know taiwanese people existed even though i've been to taiwan i still didn't actually know they even existed so this is a very enlightening book

the book drags a little bit in places i remember being a little bit bored in certain moments it could have been tightened up a little bit it has been a while but that was something i do remember feeling when i read it but overall it's a very worthwhile story especially because our protagonist is not a wholly good person but how he got to be not wholly good is very interesting and it feeds into this anti-capitalist message

although it is kind of a history lesson it's just a wonderful work of art in general these are really engaging short stories

the stolen bicycle is such a strange piece of work because of the way that it blends fiction and non-fiction together it's a very enveloping kind of a novel you really get lost in their mind

i remember it being a very fun book it's a dark book it's very surreal and all i can say is that it really gave me neil gaiman vibes

it covers so many bases it really is incredible and it teaches you so much about taiwanese and chinese history especially linguistic history which i found absolutely riveting i can't recommend this book highly enough honestly