BECOMING BUNUN

In September 1945, just one week after Japan surrendered, a US aircraft carrying American POWs crashes on the Sancha Mountain in southeast Taiwan. A rescue party of Japanese policemen, Chinese villagers, and indigenous hunters go after them, but are soon trapped in the mountain by a ravaging storm. Over fifty lives perish in the incident. Against this tragic backdrop, Kang Yao-Ming delivers his magnum opus: the story of a young Bunun tribesman who dreams of a career in professional baseball, reluctantly joining the rescue mission and is changed forever. BECOMING BUNUN is at once an intimate coming-of-age (and coming out) story, an epic adventure novel, nature writing of breathtaking beauty, and historical fiction of the highest order. A landmark achievement that cements Kang's status as master storyteller in the Sinophone world.