A bestseller in Taiwan
Anne Bomke, our intrepid international factotum (not her actual title) at the McBride Literary Agency, tells us that You Call the Shots hit several bestseller lists last week in Taiwan:
It was #9 on the KingStone Bookstore Weekly Bestselling List (Business and Finance) for the week of Nov. 12–18; and #11 on the Book.com.tw Bestselling list (Business and Finance) Taiwan’s largest online bookstore) as of Nov. 26.
It’s exciting, in sort of a weird way, to browse through a copy. You’ll go through several pages of Chinese characters, as obscure to me as nuclear physics (no, more so), and then suddenly see a word written in English for no reason I can discern: “GUTS” – “know-how” – “Cleveland Cavaliers” – “Anderson Coope 360 [sic]” – “Land Rover.”
I may just have to learn Chinese to find out how it ends.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 pm
[...] About a year ago, we noted that You Call the Shots, in its complex (traditional) Chinese edition, had hit several bestseller lists in Taiwan. [...]