Taipei (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307950178)

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From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.

Taipei by Tao Lin 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. Along the way--whether on all night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill advised grocery runs in Ohio--movies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.

Author: Tao Lin
ISBN-10: 0307950174
ISBN-13: 9780307950178
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2013
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2013
Booklist 05/15/2013 pg. 16
Entertainment Weekly 06/28/2013 pg. 66
New York Times Book Review 07/07/2013 pg. 22
New York Times Book Review 06/30/2013 pg. 8
New Yorker (The) 08/26/2013 pg. 69
New York Review of Books 12/05/2013 pg. 13