Notes of a Crocodile
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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. Review: Malinconico ed al contempo interessante - Complessità dei personaggi Review: tip top - Great quality hardcopy
| Best Sellers Rank | #37,059 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #80 in Dystopian Fiction #2,372 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 300 Reviews |
G**S
Malinconico ed al contempo interessante
Complessità dei personaggi
D**S
tip top
Great quality hardcopy
J**J
Worth reading, but...
I had heard great things about this novel, so perhaps I came to it with expectations that were too high. I certainly enjoyed it, but was not wowed by it. It's geared towards young adults in terms of tone and themes, and I suspect that had I been a few decades younger when read it I would have got a lot more out of it.
L**K
A DOOMSDAY BOOK THAT WILL KEEP YOU HAPPILY DEPRESSED
Irrefutable indicator of what I think of Taiwanese Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of a Crocodile: I just bought her subsequent book, Last Words from Montmartre, that she finished just before committing suicide at 26-years-old. Qiu’s Crocodile is a unique read, written by a perceptive young woman who was frank about her preferring women for intimate love, no news there, but she was setting that forth before it was okay. She was the first. Qui has a consummately brilliant mind. Her anguish comes through to where you can see that a suicide is upcoming. She will generate a few laughs and you will also learn from her. She’s earned high respect in Taiwan. I’ve discovered that books by Asian and Asian-American women – well, always outstanding reads; I’m almost overwhelmed by too many unread books, but I just ordered another of that genre, one by Cora Zeng.(Bat Eater).
V**A
recomendado
Buena historia; respecto al libro me fascinó la portada y las hojas, son de color un poco amarillento, suaves y resistentes, sin duda un gran formato, recomiendo
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