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Notes of a Desolate Man
by Tien-Wen, Chu, Goldblatt, Howard, Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun
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- Comments: First Edition. Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on
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- ISBN-13: 9780231116091
- ISBN: 0231116098
- Publication Date: 2000
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
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"In their whimsy and despair, the "notes" compiled by Chu's narrator offer a fascinating glimpse into one man's experience of Taiwanese gay life."Tien-Wen, Chu is the author of 'Notes of a Desolate Man', published 2000 under ISBN 9780231116091 and ISBN 0231116098.
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