**A 2024 National Book Award Finalist**

“Reading the book is like peeling an onion: the smell is at first undetectable; but with each layer you peel, the smell gets more intoxicating, pungent, intense, and at the very end, it brings tears to your eyes.”?Christina Ng

“Yang Shu?ng-z?’s novel, a runaway bestseller in Taiwan, ranges from playful and intimate depictions of the lush countryside of Taiwan to the ordered world of the colonial city. But what at first feels like a simple travelogue is actually an examination of an often-overlooked period of East Asian history and of the human heart. This wise and wily novel, as self-aware as it is provocative, ultimately goes down like the luscious dumplings that appear in its pages and sent me scrambling for takeout. But what does it mean to eat someone else’s food, and what is the nature of a relationship when any kind of power is involved? Beginning in a world as solid and stately as Jun’ichir? Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters, Taiwan Travelogue deftly takes the reader down a rabbit hole as filled with longing and misunderstanding as Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch.”?Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of The Tree Doctor

“Yang offers rich reflections on colonialism and translation along with delightful depictions of Taiwanese delicacies.”?Publishers Weekly