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Taipei

Taipei

Author(s): Tao Lin

Location(s): Taipei

Era(s): Modern

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Taipei is an ode – or lament – to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan’s art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family’s roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.

From one of this generation’s most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal and uncompromising novel about memory, love, and what it means to be alive.

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Lin captures certain qualities of contemporary life better than many writers in part because he dispenses with so much that is expected of current fiction (London Review of Books)

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