I really enjoyed this book. My goal this year is to read books from different cultures and this was the first one (yes, half way through the year :)). Anyway, it was great to get to know the author and his home country from his amazingly written stories. Sie is a great storyteller. He brought a bit of magic into every paragraph. I read the Czech translation and it had a lot of typing errors, which was quite annoying and distracting. However, the translator included a section from his own experience from Taiwan. That and Sie's stories helped me imagine, what life in Taiwan is like.