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Dive into two gripping and genre-defying works that span continents, time periods, and emotional landscapes. Jinwoo Park will present his propulsive new thriller, Oxford Soju Club, where espionage meets existential reckoning in the unlikely setting of Oxford’s only Korean restaurant. Translator Lin King presents the acclaimed novel, Taiwan Travelogue, a haunting and lyrical story set in Japanese-occupied Taiwan in 1938. This conversation is sure to be as thoughtful and layered as the books, considering the intersections of cultural identity, displacement, memory, and desire – and how fiction can uncover truths that history often conceals.

Moderated by Nancy Lam

Lin King’s appearance is supported by the Taipei Cultural Centre.

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Lin King

Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J.

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Jinwoo Park

Jinwoo Park is a Korean Canadian writer based in Montreal. He completed a master’s in creative writing at the University of Oxford.

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