Kevin Chen began his artistic career as a cinema actor, starring in the Taiwanese and German films Ghosted, Kung Bao Huhn, and Global Player. Now based in Germany, he is a staff writer for Performing Arts Reviews magazine. He’s published several novels, essays and short story collections, including Attitude, Flowers from Fingernails, Three Ways to Get Rid of Allergies and other titles.Darryl Sterk specialises in the English translation of Mandarin-language literature from Taiwan, particularly The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi. As a scholar, he studies translation between Mandarin and Taiwan's Indigenous languages.

"An uncompromising, unsentimental, slyly humorous novel."

Kevin Chen began his artistic career as a cinema actor, starring in the Taiwanese and German films Ghosted, Kung Bao Huhn, and Global Player. Now based in Germany, he is a staff writer for Performing Arts Reviews magazine. He’s published several novels, essays and short story collections, including Attitude, Flowers from Fingernails, Three Ways to Get Rid of Allergies and other titles.Darryl Sterk specialises in the English translation of Mandarin-language literature from Taiwan, particularly The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi. As a scholar, he studies translation between Mandarin and Taiwan's Indigenous languages.

"An uncompromising, unsentimental, slyly humorous novel."