Cage
KA-SIONG 1
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2024
Book
Pamphlet
978-1-915812-64-3 (ISBN)
Description
Boy meets girl when both happen to arrive on the same rooftop, on the same day, to kill themselves. Instead, they chat and make a pact that sees their lives gradually entwine but unravel at the same time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Norwich
United Kingdom
Publishing group
UEA Publishing Project
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915812-64-3 (9781915812643)
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Qiu Miaojin was born in Taiwan in 1969, and died in Paris in 1995. She is one of Taiwan's best-known queer female authors. Her novels include Last Words From Montmartre (tr. Ari Larissa Heinrich, NYRB, 2014) and Notes of a Crocodile (tr. Bonnie Huie, NYRB, 2017). Shengchi Hsu (b. 1979) is a Chinese-English translator based in Taiwan. He received his MA in English from the University of Salford and studied for a Ph.D. in Literary Translation at the University of Warwick. After a 20-year teaching career in further and higher education in Manchester, U.K, he has returned to his hometown Taichung, where he now works as a tutor of English language and literature. His short story translations, "A Daughter" by Lin You-hsuan and "Violet" by Hsu Yu-cheng, are collected in Queer Taiwanese Literature: a Reader. His co-translation of eight classical Taiwanese Han poems with Canadian poet, Evan Jones were featured in the PN Review. He is currently working on translations of poems from the Japanese colonial period and the poetry of the prominent Taiwanese poet, Xiang Yang. His translation of "Cage" was longlisted for the 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize.