An award-winning novel set in Japanese-ruled Taiwan explores the relationship between colonizer and subaltern, translator and translated — and how some distances can’t be closed.
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Join us in New York or D.C. to discuss this translated Chinese novel, a crime thriller about a nanny who kidnaps the child of a top official, that examines power and prestige in contemporary China, and the pressures that build along the fault lines of hidden pasts.
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