Notes Of A Crocodile

Download or read book Notes of a Crocodile written by Qiu Miaojin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Last Words from Montmartre written by Qiu Miaojin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women—their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love. In a style that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to pathos, compulsive repetition to rhapsodic musings, reticence to vulnerability, Qiu’s genre-bending novel is at once a psychological thriller, a sublime romance, and the author’s own suicide note. The letters (which, Qiu tells us, can be read in any order) leap between Paris, Taipei, and Tokyo. They display wrenching insights into what it means to live between cultures, languages, and genders—until the genderless character Zoë appears, and the narrator’s spiritual and physical identity is transformed. As powerfully raw and transcendent as Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Theresa Cha’s Dictée, to name but a few, Last Words from Montmartre proves Qiu Miaojin to be one of the finest experimentalists and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation.

Download or read book What's the Difference Between an Alligator and a Crocodile? written by Lisa Bullard and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? One animal has a wide, rounded snout. The other animal's snout is thin and pointed. Find out which animal is which.

Download or read book Professional Crocodile written by Giovanna Zoboli and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book without words, Mr. Crocodile gets up every morning and carefully gets ready for work--but just what is his job?

Download or read book This is a Crocodile written by Evhy Constable and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crocodile draws a crowd as he balances an increasing number of items on his nose.

Download or read book The Selfish Crocodile Book of Colours written by Faustin Charles and published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What better way to learn colours than on a fun animal safari? From white-and-black zebras to grey elephants and green crocodiles, this book is packed with a whole host of animal friends. Learning has never been so much fun!

Download or read book The Crocodile in the Tree written by Roger Duvoisin and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crocodile befriended by the barnyard animals tries to prove to the farmer's wife that he can be her friend too.