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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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The rot runs deep in George Dawes Green’s long-awaited fourth novel.
'Death Doesn't Forget,' the fourth novel in Ed Lin's Taipei Night Market series, casts a Chandler-esque eye on the social fabric of urban Taiwan.
Don’t worry if you missed the first three books of Taiwanese-American novelist Ed Lin’s (林景南) acclaimed Night Market murder-mystery series. I did too, and although I’m still unclear about the former exploits of the Joy Division-loving protagonist Jing-nan who runs a skewer stall named “Unknown Pleasures” in Shilin Night Market, knowing that he’s become somewhat of a local celebrity since the first book will suffice. Everyone seems to know that Jing-nan at one point fought off armed gangsters by blocking their bullets with only a cast iron pot, and he has mostly given up tryin...