Sex & Taipei City

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Synopsis
&“In these tales of love, lust and relationships gone awry, Yun-Han Chao portrays a city and culture of secret desires, hidden passions, and endless regret.&” —Home Planet News Sex in Taipei City is not what one expects: it is repressed, traded for cash, vengeful, sometimes awkward and almost always secretive. In Sex & Taipei City, a diverse cast of characters finds relationships more trouble than they bargained for. Some are young and innocent: a teenager loses her virginity to a Ching Dynasty torture device in her family&’s Strange Objects Museum. Some are far from innocent: a schoolgirl sells her body as an odd form of revenge and a grandfather alienates his family by watching Japanese porn at too loud a volume. For others, sexuality is a battle: a wife leaves her husband over a sexist joke, a foreign nanny steals an American baby, a mail order bride runs away, and a &“spinster&” beats up a pervert in the MRT station.&“From the fascinating quirks of food obsessions to the odd-but-seemingly-ordinary erotic moments of Taiwanese citizens, Yu-Han Chao&’s Sex & Taipei City&’s stories unfold a world of both the exotic and the familiar, captured in squirmy, disarming details . . . Funny, bold, and in moments, heartbreaking, these nineteen stories make up a stunning debut.&” —William J. Cobb, author of The Bird Saviors&“Contemporary Taiwan&’s contradictions come to life in Yu-Han Chao&’s wonderful and gossipy collection Sex and Taipei City . . . These are the stories shared between rounds of karaoke that are so juicy and awful, you don&’t realize it when your song comes on.&” —Ed Lin, author of the Taipei Night Market novels
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
208 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781597096676
Related ISBNs:
9781597090438
Publisher:
Red Hen Press
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Copyrighted By:
Sarah Cannon
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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