I left another comment here [1] with some of my introductory JY thoughts and recs! But to be honest I've never read an English translation of his work, so I have no idea what the quality of it is like. He writes in extremely poetic language that is rooted deeply in the Chinese grammatical structure that I imagine will be difficult to translate. That being said since you do have some experience with reading asian literature I would definitely recommend The Legend of the Condor Heroes as a great intro-JY book.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352268

Ai not available for purchase in my country. Thanks anyway, I've found heaps of contemporary translated novels from Japan but for some reason the only Chinese stuff I find is very expatty (apart from the classics).

I liked these translations[1], I see there have been a couple of recent others, but I haven't read them yet.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552708.The_Book_and_the_...