Taiwan Travelogue Thelma Plum Interesting shoes

Interesting shoes

That truth could change her life - and her future - forever

multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era

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Taiwan Travelogue Thelma Plum Interesting shoesMay 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text