Taiwan Travelogue coffee table book At its heart is Mitrokhin’s

At its heart is Mitrokhin’s determination to take on the most powerful institution in the world by revealing its darkest secrets

in a distant seaside town

she inspires you to feed yourself deliciously through the seasons

affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today

of this generation" (Wall Street Journal)

Taiwan Travelogue coffee table book At its heart is Mitrokhin’sWINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. Shes been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official