{"product_id":"9781681370774","title":"Notes of a Crocodile","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182400225520,"sku":"9781681370774","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370774_p0.jpg?v=1763692592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}