Taiwan Travelogue - Yang Shuangzi - Booker Award Winner!
About this episode
This episode discusses the novel 'Taiwan Travelogue' by Yang Shuangzi, which recently won the International Booker Prize and explores themes of colonialism and friendship in Taiwan.
In this podcast, we look at the novel that was, a little more than a week ago, awarded the International Booker Prize. Taiwan Travelogue is a novel that pretends to be a travelogue, where a Japanese woman from Nagasaki, an important writer in the Japanese empire. She travels to Taiwan to travel and talk about her writing, but she comes to have a sort of friendship with a Taiwanese woman. This novel is an interrogation of Japanese and KMT colonialism in Taiwan. It may also be a romance, though that is never clear. An overall great novel that deserved the Booker.
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