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.
Product details
Publisher : NYRB; Main edition (29 Jun. 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 168137076X
ISBN-13 : 978-1681370767
Dimensions : 12.7 x 1.37 x 20.19 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 235,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Customer reviews: 4.3
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