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<p><b>Welcome to Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese Civil War is now long over, but its shadow still haunts the city’s lost souls.</b><br><br>A masterwork of Chinese short fiction - now published in the UK for the very first time - <i>Taipei People </i>follows the lives and losses of those who fled to Taipei after the 1949 Communist takeover of China.<br><br>Threaded through with yearning and nostaglia, brimming with lost loves and half-forgotten faces, with dark pasts and darker presents, this collection of fourteen tales is an ode to a city of exiles.<br><br><b>These are stories for anyone who has ever left home, for anyone who has had to say goodbye, and for all those who were not able to</b>.<br><br><b>'A master of portraiture</b>' Henry Miller<br><br><b>'The highest achievement in the contemporary Chinese story'</b> Patrick Hanan</p>