Taiwanese eco-fantasy novel goes for global readership

Taiwanese nature writer Wu Ming-yi’s (吳明益) eco-fantasy is being hailed as the next ‘Life of Pi’, with translations set already for the U.S. and Britain this fall TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Not many local Taiwanese novels become big books overseas. But a 2011 cli-fi, or “climate fiction” novel written in Chinese and titled “The Man with Compound [...]

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