Masquerade (Paperback)

Mike Fu

ISBN 10: 1959030841 / ISBN 13: 9781959030843

Published by Tin House, 2024

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Paperback. A surreal, queer, coming-of-age mystery set between New York and Shanghai.TIME, A Best Book of FallA Best Book of October at People, Chicago Review of Books, and The MillionsFinalist for the 2024 Big Other Book AwardNewly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The authors name is the same as Meadows own in Chinese, Liu Tiana coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings. Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks, a stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. And when Selma vanishes from her artist residency, Meadow is forced to question everything he knows as the boundaries between real and imagined begin to blur.Exploring social, cultural, and sexual identities in New York, Shanghai, and beyond, Mike Fus Masquerade is a skillfully layered, brilliantly interwoven debut novel of friendship, queer longing, and worlds on the brink, asking how we can find ourselves among ghosts of all kinds, and who we can trust when nothingand no oneis as it seems. "A surreal, queer, coming-of-age mystery set between New York and Shanghai."-TIME, A Best Book of Fall A Best Book of October at People, Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Masquerade (Paperback)
• Publisher: Tin House
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1959030841
• ISBN 13: 9781959030843
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

“A surreal, queer, coming-of-age mystery set between New York and Shanghai.”—TIME, A Best Book of Fall

A Best Book of October at People, Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions

Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award

Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The author’s name is the same as Meadow’s own in Chinese, Liu Tian—a coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings. Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks, a stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. And when Selma vanishes from her artist residency, Meadow is forced to question everything he knows as the boundaries between real and imagined begin to blur.

Exploring social, cultural, and sexual identities in New York, Shanghai, and beyond, Mike Fu’s Masquerade is a skillfully layered, brilliantly interwoven debut novel of friendship, queer longing, and worlds on the brink, asking how we can find ourselves among ghosts of all kinds, and who we can trust when nothing—and no one—is as it seems.

About the Author

Mike Fu is a writer, translator, and editor based in Japan. He has studied in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Suzhou, and Tokyo. His Chinese-English translation of Stories of the Sahara by the late Taiwanese cultural icon Sanmao was named a Favorite Book of the Year by The Paris Review and shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose. He is a cofounder and former translation editor of The Shanghai Literary Review, and currently a PhD candidate at Waseda University.