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Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets” has been wowing critics with its literary merit and its account of the hardships faced by Uyghurs in China.

People talk about original novels, but Chi Ta-wei’s (紀大偉) The Membranes (膜) is more than original. It’s extraordinary. Momo, the protagonist, lives under the sea, for a start. The year is 2200 and she’s 30 years old She was born, if that’s the right word, from inside a peach, and she works as a sort of masseur specializing in attaching membranes to her customers, so that they are completely covered by a new skin, independent of their original one. It’s called “dermo-maintenance.” She considers having intimate relations with some of her customers but largely refrains. It�...

Taiwanese author Chi Ta-wei (紀大偉) has expressed surprise at the success that his 25-year-old LGBTQ+-themed novel received in the West after being translated into English in July. Speaking from Taiwan about his novel The Membranes (膜) to a forum held by the New York Public Library on Thursday, Chi said that he was surprised twice: first, that the novel was picked up for translation after existing in Chinese since 1995 and, second, that there were a greater number of positive reviews for the translation than for the Chinese original. “It might be fair to say that readers find The Membr...

Taipei, Oct. 16 (CNA) Taiwanese writer Chi Ta-wei (紀大偉) has expressed surprise at the success his visionary 25-year-old novel with LGBTQ themes has had in the West after being published in translation for the first time in July.