Come join an award-winning literary duo, Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi and Canadian translator Dr Darryl Sterk, for a lunchtime discussion of their collaborations on the novels The Man With the Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle. Science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote of The Man With the Compound Eyes: “We haven’t read anything like this novel. Ever. South America gave us magical realism—what is Taiwan giving us? A new way of telling our new reality, beautiful, entertaining, frightening, preposterous, true. . . . Wu Ming-Yi treats human vulnerability and the world’s vulnerability with fearless tenderness.”
This event is sponsored by the Taiwan Academy, the UBC Department of Asian Studies, and the UBC Institute of Asian Research.
Lunch provided – please RSVP at the link below by October 23.
