Taiwan

Masked Dolls
by Shih Chiung-Yu

Two backpackers meet at a hostel: one is fleeing east, the other fleeing west, both carrying a legacy of the past. This is the intense and revealing story of how they share their burdens as they struggle to break free of the present and forge a future for themselves.

Translated by Wang Xinlin and Poppy Tolond
Balestier Press, 2016
First published in 2002
ISBN 9780993215469