A subtle and slightly chaotic, or more so frenetic novel from the Taiwanese writer Miaojin Qui, this book is structured as several covert notebooks. The style of the novel is confessional, but also fable-like at times, with the “crocodile” in the title acting throughout as a metaphor for Queer people living in the wider context of the writer. We have more than one storyline going at once as we kind of have the narration of a small group of Queer people in Taiwan facing both […]
July 20, 1991. Picked up my college diploma at the service window of the registrar’s office.
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin