Reddit reviews Running Mother and Other Stories (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)

My favorite novels include the works of Guo Songfen (郭松棻), Chen Yingzhen (陳映真) and 袁哲生 (couldn't find his work in English though). I read the Chinese version of their works and am not sure what their works would look like to an English reader.

For Guo, I recommend his Running Mothers and Other Stories. He died several years ago.

Chen likes to write the average people's life and is pretty good at writing the beginning of a story (which always made me feel very musical). I guess the only problem I had with him is that he supports unification and moved to China several years ago. I heard that he was very sick for a while and not sure if he's still alive. He used to be in a turmoil in the 70s, because someone accused him of writing what is called "工農兵文學". At that time if you were keen to write something about farmers/workers, someone would assume you as a supporter of communism. He was one though.

I am not aware of any work of 袁哲生 (Yuan Zhe-Sheng) has English translation, but he was a talented writer before he committed suicide in 2004. He's a huge fan of Hemingway so you can probably outline his writing style. My favorite is 秀才的手錶.