| 摘 要 註 | May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailedfrom her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan.She's been invited there by the Japanese government rulingthe island, though she has no interest in their officialbanquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs toexperience real island life and to taste as much of itsauthentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite canbear. Soon a Taiwanese woman -- who is younger even thanshe is, and who shares the characters of her name -- ishired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true.The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arrangesChizuko's travels all over the Land of the South and alsoproves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train ridesand braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea,Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent ondrawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keepher distance. It's only after a heartbreaking separationthat Chizuko begins to grasp what the "something" is.Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by aJapanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its firstpublication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan'shighest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. TaiwanTravelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftlyreveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimaterelationships"-- |
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