Portraits in White

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Kaori Lai is an acclaimed Taiwanese writer, now based in Berlin, who has received numerous honors including the Taiwan Literature Award and the Taipei International Book Exhibition Prize. Her previous works include the novel Afterwards, the short story collection Island, and essays on Taiwanese history and culture.

Sylvia Li-chun Lin is a former professor at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film (Columbia, 2007).

Howard Goldblatt is the translator of more than sixty works in Chinese, including the novels of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Lin and Goldblatt have collaboratively translated nearly two dozen books by writers from China and Taiwan, including Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T'ien-wen (Columbia, 1999).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kaori Lai
• Mitarbeit: Lin James (Einführung), Howard Goldblatt (Übersetzung), Sylvia Lin (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.08.2025
• EAN: 9780231220101
• ISBN: 978-0-231-22010-1
• Seiten: 272
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Historical fiction, Short Stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), FICTION / World Literature / China / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II, Lai Hsiang-yin