臺北人

Fourteen stories, written in California in the late 1960s, about people who came to Taipei from the mainland after 1949: a dance hostess, retired generals, a former opera singer. Pai Hsien-yung writes each in its own voice and makes the loss of a whole world felt through parties, funerals and old songs. Elegant, controlled and deeply moving.

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