Taipei Story
By R.F. Kuang
2026
First Published
4.27
Average Rating
300
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Tentatively titled "Taipei Story" in April 2025. A "love story set in the capital of Taiwan". "A coming-of-age story set in a language school in Taiwan, which will be in the larky style of the American novelists Elif Batuman and Patricia Lockwood." "The main character, studying abroad in Taipei, doesn't learn Chinese before her grandfather unexpectedly passes."
Avg Rating
4.27
Number of Ratings
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Author
R.F. Kuang
Author · 15 books
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, translator, and award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel: An Arcane History, among others. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
