Howard Goldblatt

Sylvia Li-chun Lin

Chiang-sheng Kuo

A Novel

Piano Tuner

Minh Ngo

Thank you to NetGalley, Chiang-Sheng Kuo, and translators Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-Chun Lin for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I'm glad Goldblatt and Lin could translate this work. I love celebrating literature in translation and embracing other bodies of literature. I've read some Taiwanese works before and like other Taiwanese novels, Chiang-Sheng includes details of Taiwan's past, such as Japanese colonial rule. Chiang-Sheng like other Taiwanese novelists embraces transnationalism and the intertextuality of Western references and texts. The novella is really short, and the prose is sparse, but Chiang-Sheng makes ample use of the novella format. I immensely enjoyed the reading experience and would recommend this work to someone else.

Piano Tuner A Novel

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