Notes Of A Crocodile (NYRB Classics)

by Bonnie Huie, Eileen Myles, and Qiu Miaojin

Bonnie Huie (Translator)

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 168137076X
  • ISBN13 9781681370767
  • Publish Date 2 May 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The New York Review of Books, Inc