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The borrowed (2016)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2016Detective Kwan Chun-dok’s career unfolds across six Hong Kong cases, working backward from 2013 to 1967. Seeing the practiced detective before the beginner makes each earlier case a chance to rethink what you know about him. Start with Jeremy Tiang’s translation if you want a puzzle novel with the…0 - 2
Notes of a crocodile (2017)★ 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2017Lazi falls for Shui Ling in late-1980s Taipei and finds company among other queer students. The novel moves between diary fragments, vignettes, and satire as Lazi tries to understand the terms of that company. Bonnie Huie’s translation is the pick for readers who like a coming-of-age story that can…0 - 3
Lake Like a Mirror (2019)★ 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2019An unlicensed hair salon and a hotel with forgetful guests belong to the same quietly unnerving Malaysia in these short stories. Ho lets the ordinary places stay familiar even when strange details slip in. Try Natascha Bruce’s translation for short fiction that makes gossip or an evasive…0 - 4
The Invisibility Cloak (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017Cui scrapes by building custom amplifiers for rich customers while his own place in Beijing grows precarious. Ge Fei is sharp about the difference between having exacting tastes and having the money to indulge them. Canaan Morse translates this short novel for anyone who likes satire in which the…0 - 5
The Man with the Compound Eyes: A Novel (2014)Published Jan 1, 2014A floating mass of trash hits Taiwan’s coast, bringing together a young man from an invented island and a woman who lives by the sea. Their story shares space with other lives the disaster touches. Darryl Sterk’s translation is a good entry point if you want environmental fiction that lets a mythic…0 - 6
My city (1993)Published Jan 1, 1993Xi Xi writes about teenagers in 1970s Hong Kong in language that makes their daily surroundings feel newly strange. It’s a good place to start if you want a city novel that sounds curious and playful. Eva Hung’s English translation follows the shorter first edition.0 - 7
Taipei People (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017In these fourteen stories, people who came from mainland China after 1949 carry old attachments into new lives in Taipei. Read two or three together and see how differently memory works depending on who is doing the remembering. The English edition was translated by Pai Hsien-Yung and Patia Yasin…0 - 8
Age of Goodbyes (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022A story about Du Li An after Malaysia’s 1969 riots shares space with a critic’s account of a novelist who wrote about her. Another voice keeps tugging at the edges. Choose YZ Chin’s translation if you enjoy novels in which even the question of who gets to write a family’s history becomes part of…0 - 9
The Last Quarter of the Moon (2013)Published Jan 1, 2013An Evenki woman in northeastern China recalls a life spent amid reindeer herding, ice fishing, and family changes. Bruce Humes translates a novel that lets the memory of ordinary seasonal work set the pace through upheavals. Choose it if you want a broad sweep of time told in the scale of a single…0 - 10
Atlas (2012)★ 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2012Future archaeologists piece together an imaginary Hong Kong through maps, street names, and objects. Try the “Streets” section if you want the pleasure of opening a city novel anywhere and finding another version of the place. Dung Kai-cheung shares the translation credit with Anders Hansson and…0
