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1999 Fiction Winner
Three-Legged Horse
by Cheng Ch'ing-wen, various translators
New York, USA: Columbia University Press
A collection of 12 Chekhovian stories by an author who is beloved in his
home country of Taiwan, but whose writing had not been available in English
translation until the publication of this exceptional work. Cheng's characters
ring true, and through their stories he provides a vivid portrait of Taiwan
past and present, and of the impact of Taiwan's long experience of Japanese
occupation.
1999 Nonfiction Winner
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Journey through
the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
by Andrew X. Pham
New York, USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
In this brilliantly written and riveting memoir, first-time author Andrew
Pham takes the reader along on a year-long bicycle journey from California
to Mexico, from Japan to Saigon, revealing his Vietnamese American family's
complicated history along the way. A sometimes funny sometimes heartbreaking
memoir of his search for cultural identity.
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