Fri 22 May
|BookBar Chelsea
BookBar Presents... An Evening with Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King, in conversation with Fuchsia Dunlop
Join us in welcoming Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, in conversation on her International Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Taiwan Travelogue, alongside the books translator, Lin King, and chair, Fuchsia Dunlop.
Time & Location
22 May 2026, 19:15 – 20:15
BookBar Chelsea, 11 Chelsea Manor St, London SW3 3TW, UK
About the event
BookBar is thrilled to welcome Yáng Shuāng-zǐ , the acclaimed International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Taiwan Travelogue, a playful novel that is both a gripping romance and an incisive look at postcolonial history. Her first book translated to English, she'll be joined in conversation with the book's English translator, Lin King.
In 1938, a young journalist arrives in Taiwan from Japan on invitation from the Japanese government ruling the island. She has little interest in their agenda, and instead longs to experience the real Taiwan and to taste its most authentic cuisine. With the help of a much younger Taiwanese woman, tasked as her translator, this dream comes true. Together the women travel across the island, eating and growing closer; yet there is something that keeps the translator at a distance, something that the journalist will uncover.
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