荒人手記

A gay man in Taipei, after the death of his closest friend, writes notes on love, desire, cities and mortality. Chu T'ien-wen packs the book with quotations, colours and fragments of theory, a dense and deliberately mannered style. Demanding and sometimes airless, it is also one of the most daring Chinese novels of the 1990s, and won the first China Times novel prize.

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