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Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction

Notes of a Crocodile

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  • 2017 first published
  • 242 pages
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Published in 2017, Notes of a Crocodile is a sapphic fiction novel by Miaojin Qiu. The story is set in Taiwan and Taipei, Taiwan, in the 20th century. Key subjects include gays, Women, lesbians and Lesbian.

54 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list.

It runs to roughly 242 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Notes of a Crocodile

"Set in the post-martial-law era of 1990s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group 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, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and countercultural icon. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman who is alternately hot and cold toward her, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes the devil-may-care, rich-kid-turned-criminal Meng Sheng and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover Chu Kuang, as well as the bored, mischievous overachiever Tun Tun and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend Zhi Rou. Bursting with the optimism of newfound liberation and romantic idealism despite corroding innocence, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant and intimate masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature"--
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

  • Taiwan
  • Taipei, Taiwan

Era

Subjects

  • Gays
  • Women
  • Lesbians
  • Lesbian
  • Taipei, Taiwan
  • Coming of age
  • Coming of Age

Quick answers

Who wrote Notes of a Crocodile?

Notes of a Crocodile was written by Miaojin Qiu and first published in 2017.

What genre is Notes of a Crocodile?

It is usually shelved as Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction.

How long is Notes of a Crocodile?

The median edition has 242 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Notes of a Crocodile?

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