Book review: Novelizing Taiwan's White Terror
Book review: Novelizing Taiwan’s White Terror Our reviewer says that this is the best book of any kind, fiction or non-fiction, about this dark period in Taiwan’s history By Bradley Winterton / Contributing reporter Prison books are a semi-major literary genre. Works such as Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle, flanked by One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, are classics, with Dickens, Genet and Nelson Mandela also featuring. Most of them are at least partly autobiographical, and Tehpen Tsai’s (蔡德本) Taiwan White Terror novel, Elegy of Sweet Potatoes, is no exception. It was ori...
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