A Mumbai-based journalist shares her experience of reading Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of this year's International Booker Prize, and how she finally found a way in to the world of this Japanese novel set in Taiwan.
She recounts how she initially struggled to read the book due to unfamiliar Japanese and Taiwanese geography and history, but found success with an audio version and slowing down her reading pace.
Through her journey, she reflects on the importance of immersing oneself in a book and not just rushing through it, and how the novel's themes of colonial and caste histories resonate with her own experiences.
