Miaojin Qiu - Notes Of A Crocodile - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner OF THE 2018 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize The English - language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming - of - age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original 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.
Title: Notes Of A Crocodile
Author(s): Miaojin Qiu
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681370767
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 5/2/2017
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction