My Enemy's Cherry Tree

A man who has lost everything, including his wife, opens a café in her favorite spot on the South China Sea in hopes of finding her. Instead, he meets Luo Yiming, a powerful businessman who may be responsible for his suffering. This story explores desire, betrayal, and the tumultuous first decade of Taiwan's 21st century.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2019
Publisher: Granta Books

A man who has risen from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she disappears without a trace, he sets up a small café in her favorite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she'll return. Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who holds the small town in his sway. In the few moments the two men spend together, Luo is driven mad. So begins a story of desire and betrayal set against the tumultuous first decade of Taiwan's 21st Century. The recipient of all three of Taiwan's major literary prizes, My Enemy's Cherry Tree is a story of love, money, and coercion, in which two men who have sought to acquire something unattainable, instead lose something irreplaceable.

A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love.

When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small café in her favorite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she'll return. Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who holds the small town in his sway.

In the few moments the two men spend together, Luo is driven mad. So begins a story of desire and betrayal set against the tumultuous first decade of Taiwan's 21st Century.

The recipient of all three of Taiwan's major literary prizes, My Enemy's Cherry Tree is a story of love, money, and coercion, in which two men who have sought to acquire something unattainable, instead lose something irreplaceable.

Weight: 268g
Dimension: 139 x 216 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781846276583