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Notes of a Crocodile
Author | : Qiu Miaojin |
Publsiher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781681370767 |
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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.
Notes of a Crocodile
Author | : Qiu Miaojin |
Publsiher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781681370774 |
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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.
Last Words from Montmartre
Author | : Qiu Miaojin |
Publsiher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590177389 |
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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.
I Got a Crocodile
Author | : Nicola Killen |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780857075772 |
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A little child has always wanted a brother or sister…but instead got a crocodile! A little child longs for a brother or sister, but instead, gets a crocodile! It follows them around all day long, causing terrible trouble at teatime and big bother at bedtime. But without the crocodile the child is sad. Only the crocodile knows how to be a royal dragon, or a big, green slide, or a pirate island! The child always wanted a brother or sister but getting a crocodile is much better. This heartwarming tale is full of beautiful illustrations that will appeal to all children.
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Author | : Elizabeth Peters |
Publsiher | : C & R Crime |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781780334462 |
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Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Author | : Peter Godwin |
Publsiher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2008-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780316032094 |
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
Lyle Lyle Crocodile
Author | : Bernard Waber |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0395137209 |
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Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.
This is a Crocodile
Author | : Evhy Constable |
Publsiher | : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0027243206 |
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A crocodile draws a crowd as he balances an increasing number of items on his nose.