In 1995, the young Taiwanese woman writer Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in Paris’s Montmartre district, leaving behind the autobiographic@霍泽霍水儿父爱@al novel LAST WORDS IN MONTMARTRE. Two decades later, the novel was published in English by the prestigiou@97极品影院@s New York Review Books, bringing Qiu renown in Western li@成都4p视频免费观看@terary circles and quickly prompting translations into other European languages. Qiu is considered the first openly lesbian novelist in the history of Chinese literature; her debut novel, NOTES OF A CROCODILE, became a “Bible” @九把刀电影@for the Taiwanese lesbian community and an underground classic in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with an official edition finally published in 2012. DEATH IN MONTMARTRE travels through Taiwan, Paris, and New York to trace the life of this literary star who enjoyed fame only after her death, interviewing literary masters from Taiwan, France, and the U.S. while disc@火车帝@ussing LGBTQ culture and lesbian literature from a persp@混沌神玩网游@ective of equality.
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