My Enemy's Cherry Tree

Informationen zum Autor One of Taiwan's most celebrated authors, Wang Ting-Kuo was born in 1955. He began writing fiction when he was 18 and quickly took the literary world by storm, only to disappear from the literary scene when his soon-to-be father-in-law gave him a devastating ultimatum: either give up the precarious life of a writer or give up my daughter. Having made his fortune, Ting-Kuo returned with a vengeance with MY ENEMY'S CHERRY TREE which has since won all of Taiwan's major literary prizes. This novel marks his English-language debut. Howard Goldblatt has translated over a dozen novels, including those by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan. Sylvia Li-chun Lin has translated over a dozen novels, including those by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan. Klappentext Winner of all major Taiwanese literary prizes makes English language debut with this story of a man setting up a cafe at his vanished wife's favourite spot, only to encounter there the man who may be to blame for all he has suffered. Takes in the two disasters of SARS and the early-2000s Asian economic crash. Zusammenfassung How long would you wait for her? - Haruki Murakami meets Indecent Proposal in this novel of love, money and betrayal.

Product details

• Authors: Ting-Kuo Wang
• Assisted by: Howard Goldblatt (Translation), Sylvia Li-Chun Lin (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2019
• EAN: 9781846276583
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-658-3
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Taiwan, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Asian American, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary