Notes Of A Crocodile

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Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin
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Author : Qiu Miaojin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681370767

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Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The 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. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile 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. Afflicted 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. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

How to Hold a Crocodile

Diagram Group
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Author : Diagram Group
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Amusements
ISBN : 1552978052

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How to Hold a Crocodile by Diagram Group Pdf

Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].

Last Words from Montmartre

Qiu Miaojin
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Author : Qiu Miaojin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590177389

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Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women—their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love. In a style that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to pathos, compulsive repetition to rhapsodic musings, reticence to vulnerability, Qiu’s genre-bending novel is at once a psychological thriller, a sublime romance, and the author’s own suicide note. The letters (which, Qiu tells us, can be read in any order) leap between Paris, Taipei, and Tokyo. They display wrenching insights into what it means to live between cultures, languages, and genders—until the genderless character Zoë appears, and the narrator’s spiritual and physical identity is transformed. As powerfully raw and transcendent as Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Theresa Cha’s Dictée, to name but a few, Last Words from Montmartre proves Qiu Miaojin to be one of the finest experimentalists and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation.

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

Peter Godwin
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Author : Peter Godwin
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316032094

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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin Pdf

After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.

I Got a Crocodile

Nicola Killen
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Author : Nicola Killen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857075772

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I Got a Crocodile by Nicola Killen Pdf

A little child has always wanted a brother or sister…but instead got a crocodile! A little child longs for a brother or sister, but instead, gets a crocodile! It follows them around all day long, causing terrible trouble at teatime and big bother at bedtime. But without the crocodile the child is sad. Only the crocodile knows how to be a royal dragon, or a big, green slide, or a pirate island! The child always wanted a brother or sister but getting a crocodile is much better. This heartwarming tale is full of beautiful illustrations that will appeal to all children.

My Crocodile Does Not Bite

Joe Kulka
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Author : Joe Kulka
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467709552

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My Crocodile Does Not Bite by Joe Kulka Pdf

Ernest's crocodile does not bite! It's very well trained. But when Ernest brings the crocodile to the school's pet show, his rival Cindy Lou gets very rude.Cindy Lou is sure her poodle Fifi will win best in show. She doesn't think Ernest's croc should be allowed to compete. But Ernest and his friend have some tricks prepared. They're going to prove that when a crocodile's not busy biting, it can really put on a show!

Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters
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Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780334462

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Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Pdf

Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!

Professional Crocodile

Giovanna Zoboli
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Author : Giovanna Zoboli
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452167008

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Professional Crocodile by Giovanna Zoboli Pdf

In this book without words, Mr. Crocodile gets up every morning and carefully gets ready for work--but just what is his job?

There's a Crocodile Under My Bed!

Ingrid Schubert,Dieter Schubert
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Author : Ingrid Schubert,Dieter Schubert
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1932425489

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There's a Crocodile Under My Bed! by Ingrid Schubert,Dieter Schubert Pdf

The crocodile under Peggy's bed ends up being her playmate.

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Bernard Waber
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Author : Bernard Waber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395137209

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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber Pdf

Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.

Song of the Crocodile

Nardi Simpson
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Author : Nardi Simpson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780733643750

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Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson Pdf

'SONG OF THE CROCODILE is a moving, wise and deeply rewarding novel from an astonishing writer' - Emily Maguire, author of AN ISOLATED INCIDENT Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three generations who have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race relations between Indigenous and settler families are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and soft power rather than the overt violence of yesteryear. As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change, some stay exactly the same. The Billymil family are watched (and sometimes visited) by ancestral spirits and spirits of the recently deceased, who look out for their descendants and attempt to help them on the right path. When the town's secrets start to be uncovered the town will be rocked by a violent act that forever shatters a century of silence. Full of music, Yuwaalaraay language and exquisite description, Song of the Crocodile is a lament to choice and change, and the unyielding land that sustains us all, if only we could listen to it. 'In Song of the Crocodile, Yuwaalaraay author Nardi Simpson makes a lightning debut.' - Kill Your Darlings

The Crocodile

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726501308

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The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

Ivan Matveich was thinking it was a bad idea to see a live crocodile on the street as it swallowed him whole! Why couldn't it have eaten his wife Elena instead? What follows is an immensely humorous and satirical account of Ivan's new life from inside the crocodile, unable to get out because the owner refuses to kill the beast. A precursor to Kafka’s 'Metamorphosis', Dostoevsky’s short story is a farcical depiction and social criticism of Russian society at the time. The situation becomes a scene from the theatre of the absurd, making the tale a poignant finger wagging at the problems of humanity. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays. A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky’s oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological. There have been at least 30 film and TV adaptations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel 'Crime and Punishment' with probably the most popular being the British BBC TV series starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry Petrovich. 'The Idiot' has also been adapted for films and TV, as has 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

The Eye of the Crocodile

Val Plumwood
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Author : Val Plumwood
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922144171

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The Eye of the Crocodile by Val Plumwood Pdf

Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.

Beware of the Crocodile

Martin Jenkins,Satoshi Kitamura
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Author : Martin Jenkins,Satoshi Kitamura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406383139

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Beware of the Crocodile by Martin Jenkins,Satoshi Kitamura Pdf

A Nature Storybook about one of the world's most dangerous animals, with text by top non-fiction author Martin Jenkins and pictures by Satoshi Kitamura. A witty Nature Storybook about crocodiles, with words by award-winning author Martin Jenkins and playful pictures by Satoshi Kitamura. The main thing about crocodiles is they¿re really scary ¿ or at least the big ones are. They¿ve got an awful lot of teeth and they¿re not at all fussy about what they eat, as long as it¿s got a bit of meat on it. When it comes to hunting down their dinner, they¿re very determined and very cunning ... so better beware. But you might be surprised to hear that there's more to crocodiles than just their appetites: crocodiles make wonderful mothers! This is a fascinating, rounded look at crocodiles, with Martin's wry text brought to life by Satoshi's lively watercolour paintings. The back matter includes notes on species, an index and a bibliography.

The Crocodile Under the Bed

Judith Kerr
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Author : Judith Kerr
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Imagination
ISBN : 0008166684

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The Crocodile Under the Bed by Judith Kerr Pdf

A magical new classic in the making from the creator of the beloved favourite, The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Once there was a little boy called Matty, and he was very sad... From the creator of the iconic picture books The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat, comes a brand new story about joy, parties... and crocodiles! Matty is sick, and very sad because he's too sick to go to the Queen's birthday party! But when he gets an unexpected visitor, it seems that Matty might not miss out after all...