This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books

by Joan Anim-Addo

In Notes of a Desolate Man (1994) by Chu T’ien-wen, a middle-aged man flies from Taipei to Tokyo to care for his friend dying of AIDS in a unique portrait of Taiwan manners and mores, love and ageing, set against a tragic backdrop of personal loss.