Taipei
- 4 Jul 2013
- 9781782111856
- £9.99
- 256 pp
- 129×198mm
- 5 Jun 2013
- 9781782111863
- £7.99
- 256 pp
In a few words
From one of this generation’s most talked about young writers comes a novel about failed relationships, drug-induced depression, marriage, and death
In a few words
From one of this generation’s most talked about young writers comes a novel about failed relationships, drug-induced depression, marriage, and death
The most interesting prose stylist of his generation
Bret Easton Ellis
Lin's writing is reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis, but there is also something going on here that is more profoundly peculiar, even Beckettian . . . deliciously odd
The most interesting prose stylist of his generation
Bret Easton Ellis
Moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious
Miranda July, Author Of No One Belongs Here More Than You
More about
the book
At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he’d begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle – with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day ‘was over’ – he noticed with confusion, having thought it was early morning, that it was 4:46PM
Taipei is an ode – or lament – to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan’s art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family’s roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.
From one of this generation’s most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal and uncompromising novel about memory, love, and what it means to be alive.
More about
the book
At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he’d begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle – with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day ‘was over’ – he noticed with confusion, having thought it was early morning, that it was 4:46PM
Taipei is an ode – or lament – to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan’s art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family’s roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.
From one of this generation’s most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal and uncompromising novel about memory, love, and what it means to be alive.
Moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious
Miranda July, Author Of No One Belongs Here More Than You
Lin is a 21st century literary adventurer . . . [Taipei] is a fascinating book, bone dry, repellant, painful, but relentlessly true to life
Frederick Barthelme, Author Of Waveland
A Kafka for the iPhone generation . . . Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today
Clancy Martin
[A] deadpan literary trickster
Lin's writing is reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis, but there is also something going on here that is more profoundly peculiar, even Beckettian . . . deliciously odd
Lin is a 21st century literary adventurer . . . [Taipei] is a fascinating book, bone dry, repellant, painful, but relentlessly true to life
Frederick Barthelme, Author Of Waveland
A Kafka for the iPhone generation . . . Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today
Clancy Martin
[A] deadpan literary trickster
