Review: My Enemy's Cherry Tree

My Enemy's Cherry Tree by Ting-Kuo Wang
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An interesting, melancholic book, discussing loss, love, betrayal, poverty, etc. These are probably the reasons why it reminded me somewhat of contemporary Korean fiction. 

Regardless, the story was excellent, although the parts about Baixiu were probably over my head. I read the author took a 25-year hiatus from writing because of his father-in-law. I look forward to more books by him. 

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Review: The Taipei Chinese PEN—A Quarterly Journal of Contemporary Chinese Literature from Taiwan《中華民國筆會英文季刊─台灣文譯》 夏季號/2021 - No. 196

The Taipei Chinese PEN—A Quarterly Journal of Contemporary Chinese Literature from Taiwan《中華民國筆會英文季刊─台灣文譯》 夏季號/2021 - No. 196 by Taipei Chinese PEN
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another great collection of poetry and short stories, also featuring some Czech poetry. 

Out of the 2 short stories my favorite was probably "Lucy's notes of a Guest House" by Tsai Su-fen (蔡素芬), although it seems that the other author ，王定國， is the famous one.

It also had a great feature on Sculpture in Taiwan, discussing Pu Tian-Sheng and Huang Tu-Shui, all of which was new to me. 

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