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title: "Notes of a Crocodile"
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# Notes of a Crocodile

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## Description

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.

Review: Malinconico ed al contempo interessante - Complessità dei personaggi
Review: tip top - Great quality hardcopy

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #37,059 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #80 in Dystopian Fiction #2,372 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 300 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Malinconico ed al contempo interessante
*by G***S on 27 October 2023*

Complessità dei personaggi

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ tip top
*by D***S on 23 April 2025*

Great quality hardcopy

### ⭐⭐⭐ Worth reading, but...
*by J***J on 1 February 2018*

I had heard great things about this novel, so perhaps I came to it with expectations that were too high. I certainly enjoyed it, but was not wowed by it. It's geared towards young adults in terms of tone and themes, and I suspect that had I been a few decades younger when read it I would have got a lot more out of it.

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