Notes of a Desolate Man

Name: Notes of a Desolate Man
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ISBN: 9780231116091

ISBN-10: 0231116098

ISBN-13: 9780231116091

Edition: Reprint

Authors: T'ien-wen Chu, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Lin, Chu T'ien-wen

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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 the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English