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      • BEFORE WE WERE MONSTERS
        Crime & mystery

        BEFORE WE WERE MONSTERS

        by Katniss Hsiao

        PERFUME meets SILENCE OF THE LAMB in contemporary Taipei, with a touch of Mariana Enriquez. A dark, searing, astonishingly confident debut that announces the arrival of a major crime writer. Eve is a young and quiet crime scene cleaner. A former "super smeller", she lost her sense of smell after a tragic incident, only to have it come alive at scenes of death and decomposition. One night, she is tasked to cleaning up a suicide, not knowing it was a murder scene. With all trace evidence gone, she becomes the police’s No. 1 suspect. Even begins a desperate quest to clear her name, following the elusive scent left by the murderer, even enlisting the help of notorious serial killer/artist, Triple C, to understand the inner workings of a psychopathic mind. To hunt the monster, she must become a monster herself.

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      • MY FATHER'S LIBERATION
        Fiction
        September 2022

        MY FATHER'S LIBERATION

        by Jeong Ji-A

        “Father died. Slammed his head into a telephone pole. A very serious man had seriously come to the end of a seriously lived life by seriously slamming his head against a telephone pole. [...] Goddamn it.”   Following her father’s sudden death (bumping himself onto a telephone pole), Ari Ko returns to her hometown to host a three-day funeral.    Ari was once close to her father, but as she grew older, she found it increasingly difficult to understand him. Her father, a former communist partisan who fought in the Korean War, lived by the principle of "Serve the People," a belief that only brought troubles to their doorstep.   However, as friends and comrades recounts her father’s life during the funeral—his glorious days as a partisan, his fake treachery to protect his people, his tangled relationship with his family—Ari realizes that there are a lot about her father she didn’t know.    Ten years in the making, this semi-autobiographical novel has sold over 300,000 copies and received praise from the former Korean president, Moon. Jeong Ji-A, in honor of her partisan parents, brings to light Korea's overlooked history and the unsung partisan fighters.     "My parents were socialists. After South Korea forcibly established a government ruling only the South with the support of the United States, they both cried out for national unification and class liberation, infiltrating Jirisan to start an armed struggle. Ultimately failing, they served long prison sentences before returning to farm in the capitalist society of South Korea. Did my parents ever feel wronged? I believe they never felt wronged or defeated. They simply did what they could at the time, quietly living through their destined days.They never let frustration, anger, or sadness dominate their lives. " -- Jeong Ji-A, from exclusive preface for Complex Chinese edition

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      • THE MERMAID'S TALE
        Fiction
        May 2019

        THE MERMAID'S TALE

        by Lee Wei-Jing

        If the mermaid doesn't swim back to the sea, but instead goes ashore, she will learn to walk on two legs. Perhaps, she will even learn to dance......    In her early thirties, Summer lives alone, jobless, with little material wants. Her only passion is dancing. To be more specific, ballroom dancing. She is at an awkward position: she started too late to be competition-worthy, yet takes dancing far too seriously to be a mere pastime. Her solitary existence poses another obstacle: you need a partner in the ballroom, where "men lead, women follow" is the ironclad rule.   Under the tutelage of the legendary Donny, Summer embarks on a journey of self-discovery and, perhaps more importantly, in search of the perfect partner.    Her hopes are dashed again and again as she witnesses (and sometimes partners with) the colorful characters in the ballroom: the arrogant youngster Youlin from a dancing dynasty; the talented Grace who wants nothing but an ordinary life; and the petite Meixin, forever at war with her fiance/partner. There is of course Donny, the gay dancer ferociously committed to competition and every bit as traditional as most straight men.   As Summer continues her pursuit for Mr Right, she is forced to confront the dark memories of her past: the slut-shaming from her control-freak mother, the attempted suicide of her cousin, and the painful humiliation of sex with a classmate. She dreams of the perfect dancing body, yet dreads her own sexuality.   THE MERMAID'S TALE is a beautiful solo dance of a novel. It brings to mind the exploration of the female body in THE VEGETARIAN and the madness of the dance world of BLACK SWAN, but is told in a lighter voice at once dreamy, whimsical, and scintillating. Written in the author's darkest days, it is nevertheless a book about life and freedom.

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      • GHOST TOWN
        Fiction
        December 2019

        GHOST TOWN

        by Kevin Chen

        A Taiwanese take on TWIN PEAKS, or SHARP OBJECTS meets Flannery O’Connor in Garcia Marquez’s Macondo. A prodigal son returns to investigate a death in the family in this bestselling literary mystery.   Yongjing, a small town in central Taiwan and whose name means “Eternal Peace”, is anything but. It is the birthplace of Keith Chen – youngest of seven siblings and result of parents who desperately wanted a son but instead got only daughters. He turned out to be gay; of course, he had to run away.    The story begins many years later, when Keith has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend in Berlin. He is about to return to Yongjing, now a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, sisters married (to wrong guys), mad, or dead, there is really nothing left for him here. So why is he coming back? What happened more than a decade ago that tore this happy family apart? And why did Keith kill his German boyfriend?    Told in a myriad of voices – both living and dead – and moving through time with deceptive ease, GHOST TOWN weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.

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      • GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME
        Fiction
        April 2020

        GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME

        by Andrew Yeh

        Disaster, biological warfare, environmental catastrophe, and resistance to hegemony. No, it’s not a description of 2020; it’s Andrew Yeh’s science fiction collection, GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME. Originally published in 1987 and has never gone out of print, these stories reflect a dystopian future so resonant with our own, it is almost like they came out yesterday.   Set in a fictional East Asia, the four stories narrate the struggles of the tiny island nation of Buron to resist the onslaught of its much bigger neighbor, Garsia, via any means necessary. “Green Monkey Syndrome” describes the disaster of a pathogenic weapon leaked among indigenous tribespeople; “The Gaoka Case” tracks through case files a pharmaceutical offensive designed to take advantage of the enemy’s patriarchal culture; “I Love Thee Winona” and “The Lost Bird” describe campaigns to manipulate disastrous weather patterns and deliver bio-weapons through migrating birds.   These stories, fortified by the author’s own extensive research, paint a picture of transnational warfare and brutal environmental imbalance that will chill the blood of anyone who has been reading this year’s news. Yeh’s surgically precise language and compelling narratives read like 1984 meets BRAVE NEW WORLD meets the front page of the New York Times.

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      • SAHA MANSION
        Fiction
        May 2019

        SAHA MANSION

        by Cho Nam-joo

        There are two classes of people in the Town: L and L2. The ones with citizenship are referred to as Ls, or Citizens. They are above a certain level of financial status with knowledge or skills that the Town requires. The L2s are people without citizenship but have a clean criminal record. After interview and physical examination, they can stay and work for two years in this safest and richest corporate nation on earth.   Then there are those below even the L2s, illegal aliens called the saha. They are the immigrants, the disabled, the misfits, victims of violence and poverty who dwell in the decrepit Saha Mansion and are named accordingly.   So what happens when a respected young pediatrician is found dead in a parking lot, with evidence of drug overdose and sexual assault, and the prime suspect is her saha boyfriend?   A major police crackdown ensues, with the boyfriend quickly arrested and executed, but is he really behind the murder? His sister, Jinkyung, vows to find out the truth, only to discover the disappearance of a saha girl who has been the test subject of the Town Medical Lab. What lies behind the impenetrable walls of the Town, and who are the mysterious seven Premiers who rule it?   Eight years in the making, SAHA MANSION is a powerful tale of dystopia and a battle cry for the dispossessed. Cho gives voice to the marginalized and often unseen minority: They are all Kim Jiyoung, every single one of them.

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      • THE SNIPER
        Fiction
        February 2019

        THE SNIPER

        by Chang Kuo-li

        Imagine Jason Bourne meets an older and grumpier John McClane, both inadvertent players in a top-secret, international arms deal scandal worth billions of dollars. Spice the story with black humor, Chinese cuisine, and secret societies, and you get THE SNIPER – a truly original take on the international thriller, Taiwanese style.   Twelve days before retirement, Taipei police detective Wu is given a curious case: A Navy officer’s suicide in his hotel room. He is clearly murdered, Wu thinks, but the military wants to close the case as suicide, with no questions asked. And that is only the first of a series of suspicious deaths.   At the same time, a sleeping cell is called to action. Alex is a young Taiwanese sniper, ex-Marine, ex-French Foreign Legion, currently a fried rice chef in Manarola, Italy. Ordered to assassinate a high-level Taiwanese government advisor in Rome, he is soon on the run, hunted by his old brothers-in-arms across Europe.   Who is killing Navy officers in Taiwan? And who ordered the kill in Rome? As Wu races against time to solve the mounting cases before retirement, Alex embarks on a journey back to Taiwan, back to his beginning, where a group of war orphans were raised by a benevolent “grandpa” and trained to serve the nation.   Based on the biggest military corruption case in Taiwan history – the murder of Navy Captain Yin Ching-feng – THE SNIPER is both a masterclass in thriller writing and a study of the heart of darkness in time of war and peace. Chang is working on the sequel, THE SNIPER AND THE MISSING BULLETS.

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      • REGRETS
        Fiction
        June 2018

        REGRETS

        by Sharon Chung

        Twenty-five years in the making, REGRETS is Sharon Chung’s literary masterpiece and a once-in-a-lifetime publishing event. This is DOWNTON ABBEY meets MATCH POINT in pre-handover Hong Kong, both a haunting family saga and a dark retelling of the classic Chinese novel A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS.   When Yat-Ping visits his aunt, Chun, at the Wong Mansion on Victoria Peak, he has no idea he is about to enter a world of passion, intrigue, and madness. Chun is Mr. Wong’s second wife, a frail and sickly woman who cannot set foot outside. She beseeches Yat-Ping to look after her willful daughter, Po-Chuen, by becoming her private tutor. A bond develops between the cousins, yet Mr. Wong deems it inappropriate and fires Yat-Ping, unexpectedly triggering a string of tragic events.   Although forced to leave, Yat-Ping remains inseparable from the Wongs’ affairs. In the years that follow, he is befriended by Cheng-Yiu, Mr. Wong’s adopted son and designated heir, who is a shrewd and cold-blooded manipulator; he falls in love with Kam-Chuen, daughter of Mr Wong and his first wife, only to discover that she’s pregnant with someone else’s child; he is beaten up by Ching Hon, the family driver and son of the housekeeper, who sees him as a threat; he is seduced by Wang-Tai, the sexy Portuguese heiress about to marry Cheng-Yiu; and he is equally confused and enamored by Po-Chuen, now a beautiful young woman, who still recalls his tutor sessions with fondness.   Soon, a death in the swimming pool will threaten to shatter the whole family, and a kidnapping plot gone awry will reveal something far more sinister.

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