Wild Kids: Two Novels About Growing Up

Chang Ta-chun

Paper, 272 pages, 43 cartoon drawings
ISBN: 978-0-231-12097-5
$24.50 / £17.00

September, 2000
Cloth, 272 pages, 43 cartoon drawings
ISBN: 978-0-231-12096-8
$54.00

Translator's Introduction

My Kid Sister

A Present Just for Me

Nausea

A New Breed of Woman

First Love

Her Taboo

On Treatment

All That Remains Is Our Shell of Flesh

Listening Intently and Telling Stories

The Awakening of Laughter

Chronicle of Death

Ending in Insanity

Wild Child

Friends

The Beginning

In the Streets

In the Heart of the Night

Stories

Games

Good-for-nothings

The Handgun

Annie

The Past

On the Rooftop

Brothers

Mistakes

The Hotel

The Port

Changes

The Poster

Secrets

The Window

Happiness

Learning

From Birth

Pitiful

The Celebrity

The Adoption

The Negotiation

The Birthday

And Supposing

Forgetting

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

Series

• Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan

About the Author

Chang Ta-chun is among Taiwan’s premier contemporary authors. His prolific and varied output has transformed him from a cult literary figure into a virtual celebrity in Taiwan, where he produces and hosts a television program on literature. He has published twenty-one books since his emergence on the literary scene almost two decades ago and has taught at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He lives in Taiwan and maintains a home in Iowa, where he spends several months of the year. Michael Berry is a doctoral candidate in modern Chinese literature at Columbia University. He is the translator of several works, including the forthcoming novel To Live by Yu Hua.

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