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Notes of a crocodile
Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-19952017
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Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, 'Notes of a Crocodile' is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, 'Notes of a Crocodile' is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.
Main title:
Notes of a crocodile / Qiu Miaojin ; translated from the Chinese by Bonnie Huie.
Author:
Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-1995, authorHuie, Bonnie, translator
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, 2017.
Collation:
242 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Chinese.
Awards:
China Times Literature Award 1995
ISBN:
9781681370767 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.1352FICTION
Language:
EnglishChinese
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BRN:
2502500