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Demand is surging for the Mandarin version of “Taiwan Travelogue” after it won the International Booker Prize. Publisher reports say the 2020 novel by Yang Shuang-zi is heading back into reprint, with 100,000 additional copies ordered to meet growing demand.

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00:00Readers looking to get their hands on a copy of international Booker Prize winner Taiwan
00:04Travelogue might have to wait a little longer.
00:07The original Mandarin edition of the 2020 novel by Yang Shang-Chi is getting a major
00:12reprint with 100,000 more copies ordered to meet demand.
00:16The first batch is expected to be sent to distributors on Thursday.
00:19The book follows a Japanese author and her Taiwanese translator as they go on a culinary
00:24journey around Japanese-era Taiwan.
00:26It's the first Booker Prize winner originally written in Mandarin and was translated into
00:31English by Lin King.
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