{"product_id":"notes-of-a-crocodile-paperback","title":"Notes of a Crocodile - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eQiu Miaojin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBonnie Huie\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003eSet in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Crocodile\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfflicted 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIllustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Crocodile\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQiu Miaojin\u003c\/b\u003e (1969-1995)--one of Taiwan's most innovative literary modernists, and the country's most renowned lesbian writer--was born in Chuanghua County in western Taiwan. She graduated with a degree in psychology from National Taiwan University and pursued graduate studies in clinical psychology at the University of Paris VIII. Her first published story, \"Prisoner,\" received the \u003ci\u003eCentral Daily News \u003c\/i\u003eShort Story Prize, and her novella \u003ci\u003eLonely Crowds\u003c\/i\u003e won the United Literature Association Award. While in Paris, she directed a thirty-minute film called \u003ci\u003eGhost Carnival\u003c\/i\u003e, and not long after this, at the age of twenty-six, she committed suicide. The posthumous publications of her novels \u003ci\u003eLast Words from Montmartre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Crocodile\u003c\/i\u003e made her into one of the most revered countercultural icons in Chinese letters. After her death in 1995, she was given the \u003ci\u003eChina Times \u003c\/i\u003eHonorary Prize for Literature. In 2007, a two-volume edition of her \u003ci\u003eDiaries\u003c\/i\u003e was published, and in 2017 she became the subject of a feature-length documentary by Evans Chan titled \u003ci\u003eDeath in Montmartre\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonnie Huie\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of a PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant. Her rendition of Motojirō Kajii's story \"Under the Cherry Blossoms\" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she has also translated the work of Tatsuhiro Ōshiro. Her writings and translations appear in \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKyoto Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfterimage\u003c\/i\u003e. Huie lives in New York.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760244752672,"sku":"9781681370767","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bf981550ac7c5440f0c4cb691ee9afc9.webp?v=1780175455","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/notes-of-a-crocodile-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}