Book review: SANCTUARY: Short Fiction from Queer AsiaRecently published by Hong Kong’s Signal 8 Press, this is an unusual and valuable collection of queer-themed short fiction from writers throughout southeast Asia, including TaiwanBy Breadley Winterton / Contributing reporterThis is extraordinary! Not only do we have Sanctuary, a book of 18 gay short stories in English from East Asia, including Taiwan, but there’s also a companion volume, Intimate Strangers, consisting of 15 gay “creative nonfiction” narratives from the same publisher, Hong Kong’s Signal 8 Press. QUEER FICTIONSANCTUARY: Short Fiction from Queer Asia; edited by Libay Linsangan and Ng Yi-Sheng. Hsu was born in 1977 and is the author of many short stories, including those in Purple Blooms (Ink, 2008). Teatime is a powerful, though muted, story about a married 35-year-old Taipei man who meets another man, much younger than himself, online.

Source: Taipei Times March 18, 2020 15:56 UTC