![]() ![]() The story more or less chronologically follows Lazi's time at college, which coincides with her personal development. I'm constantly on the border of life and death, waiting for something to come along and push me over the edge." To quote just one passage that demonstrates the narrator's general attitude towards life: "…every time I fight my way out, the outside world just blocks my path again. The book's narrator, who goes by the nickname Lazi, is a self-hating, sexually conflicted young woman who sometimes carries out acts of self-harm. The tragic specifics of Qiu's life (which the reader will likely be familiar with, as they're included in the book's author-biography) mean that one begins reading "Note of a Crocodile" with some expectations – and, indeed, these expectations are quickly met. The book also, due to her suicide at the age of 26 in 1995, makes up half of her novelistic oeuvre her second and final novel, "Last Words from Montmartre," wasn't released until after her death. ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1994 – although an English translation wasn't available until earlier this year – "Notes of a Crocodile" is the first novel by Qiu Miaojin, an outspoken lesbian writer who was born in Changhua County, Taiwan. ![]()
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