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Poignant exploration of youth, love, and dislocation.

"Taipei" might resonate with you if you're drawn to narratives that encapsulate the essence of millennial anxiety and the search for meaning in a hyperconnected world. Tao Lin crafts a story that's at once a candid portrayal of modern relationships and a broader commentary on contemporary life's peculiar mix of ennui and excess. The novel's raw honesty and Tao Lin's distinctive prose could give you a new lens through which to view the ordinary and the profound.

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Taipei

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ISBN: 9780307950178
Authors: Tao Lin
Date of Publication: 2013-06-04
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.33
(rated by 7663 readers)

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At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realization that his day 'was over' - he noticed with confusion, having thought it was early morning, that it was 4:46PM. Taipei is an ode - or lament - to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. From one of this generation's most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal and uncompromising novel about memory, love, and what it means to be alive.
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Poignant exploration of youth, love, and dislocation.

"Taipei" might resonate with you if you're drawn to narratives that encapsulate the essence of millennial anxiety and the search for meaning in a hyperconnected world. Tao Lin crafts a story that's at once a candid portrayal of modern relationships and a broader commentary on contemporary life's peculiar mix of ennui and excess. The novel's raw honesty and Tao Lin's distinctive prose could give you a new lens through which to view the ordinary and the profound.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.