I love my own kind - womankind,” Lazi contends in one of many letters to Shui Ling. The two embark on a tantric, mostly agonizing battle of wills, alternately courting and rejecting each other. Lazi falls in love with her slightly older female classmate Shui Ling, a love she strains to resist and equates with a crime. Set in Taipei in the late 1980s, directly following the cessation of martial law, the novel follows a wry, soulful and somewhat miserable young woman nicknamed Lazi, who spends much of her time alone, reading, writing and decoding her obsessions deep into the night while somehow scraping by at one of Taiwan’s most esteemed universities. Bonnie Huie’s translation is nothing short of remarkable - loving, even one gets the sense that great pains have been taken to preserve the voice behind this lush, ontological masterwork. “Cruelty and mercy are one and the same.” This way of reframing dualities within a binary system - and pummeling that system - is the soul of this thrillingly transgressive coming-of-age story by the Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin. “One day it dawned on me as if I were writing my own name for the first time,” the narrator of “Notes of a Crocodile” declares in the early pages. NOTES OF A CROCODILE By Qiu Miaojin Translated by Bonnie Huie 304 pp.
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Eve doesn’t trust Tiffany’s safety to anyone else and decides to hunt fo her on her own. He plans to hire his own private detective to check into this. Eve and Tiffany have put that incident behind them. After all she was in charge the last time Tiffany got hurt. But when she goes to Tiffany’s father, he doesn’t want Eve anywhere near Tiffany. When she goes after her, she’s knocked out and when she comes to, Tiffany is gone. However, when Eve gets to the bar she sees some suspicious activity in a dark alley and her gut tells her that Tiffany is involved. Tiffany was her first assignment and she developed a big sister attachment to the kid that continues to this day. She met the girl when she was still an agent. When former Secret Service agent Eve Garrett, gets a late night call from Tiffany Clayborne saying ‘Eve, please come and get me’ she books over the the bar Tiffany says she’s at. It is then that the wind ceases, and the ship becomes trapped on a vast, calm sea. 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The Mariner’s story begins with the ship leaving harbor and sailing southward. Despite the Wedding Guest’s efforts to leave, the Mariner continues to speak. The Mariner stops the young man to tell him the story of a ship, providing no introduction but simply beginning his tale. The poem begins by introducing the Ancient Mariner, who, with his “glittering eye,” stops a Wedding Guest from attending a nearby wedding celebration. For the past two hundred years, the accursed Melmoth has been searching desperately for an escape from the infernal bargain he once made. Who is the sinister old man in the portrait and why is his uncle so anxious for him to burn it? Why is the Spanish man who saves him from drowning so frightened when he hears the name Melmoth?Īs he digs deeper into the mystery, an intricate and blood-chilling story begins to unfold. When a young Dublin student goes to pay his last respects to his dying uncle, he never imagines that he might chance upon a terrifying family secret. This sinister classic by Charles Robert Maturin, an eccentric Anglican priest from Ireland, has captured the imaginations of readers since its publication in 1820 and provided inspiration for many other Gothic masterpieces, including Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey and Sarah Perry's Melmoth. In a perverse way, I suppose, I had refused to be sentimental about the death of my daughter. 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