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Taipei Story By R.F. Kuang (Hardback)
Taipei Story By R.F. Kuang (Hardback)
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Published: 08/09/2026
Genres: Fiction - Contemporary - Literary Fiction - Fantasy - Adult - Romance - Asia



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?
Publisher information
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008702557
Number of pages: 368
Dimensions: 240 x 159 x 21 mm
Weight: 270 g
Language: English
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