Taipei Story (paperback)

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From the bestselling author of Babel, Yellowface and Katabasis comes a bravura coming-of-age story about identity, family and how the secrets of the past impact the present, as a Yale student freshly arrived in Taiwan learns a heartbreaking truth about her late grandfather.

Lily arrives in Taipei hoping a summer at National Taiwan University will help her strengthen her Chinese and connect with her heritage. But when her grandfather dies, she’s pulled into a grief‑stricken past that feels both intimate and unreachable, leaving her suspended between who she is and where she comes from.

As she uncovers the heartbreak her family carried across generations, Lily struggles to reconcile identity, language, and belonging. Taipei Story becomes a quiet, piercing coming‑of‑age novel about finding yourself while standing in the shadow of history.

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Author: Rebecca F Kuang
Language: Angļu valoda
Year of publication: 2026
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Cover type: Soft cover
Number of pages: 320
product.Svars: 0.482 kg
ISBN code: 9780008702564

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From the bestselling author of Babel, Yellowface and Katabasis comes a bravura coming-of-age story about identity, family and how the secrets of the past impact the present, as a Yale student freshly arrived in Taiwan learns a heartbreaking truth about her late grandfather.

The hugely exciting literary novel from bestselling phenomenon Rebecca F. Kuang: a moving coming-of-age story set in Taiwan, about identity, language, love and grief – for fans of Sally Rooney and Coco Mellors.

Taipei Story is the hotly anticipated new novel by Rebecca F. Kuang, an intensely moving exploration of identity and language, love and grief.

When Yale student Lily arrives in Taipei for a summer’s study at the National Taiwan University, she’s looking forward to working on her Chinese language and finding her Chinese self. If only it was that simple. When her grandfather suddenly dies, Lily discovers a past so profoundly heartbreaking that she finds herself stuck, unable to move forward. But her grandfather’s story is not her own; none of it happened to her. How can Lily reconcile who she is, with where her family are from, when she is caught between their past and her present?