RF Kuang is back with her most personal story yet
Historical fantasy, campus satire, industry exposé; five books in, and no one's quite worked out what a "RF Kuang novel" is supposed to look like. That's rather the point.This September she publishes her sixth: Taipei Story, a semi-autobiographical account of a summer spent learning Mandarin in Taiwan - her most personal book yet.She joins Tanjil Rashid in this episode of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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