Notes of a Desolate Man
Chu, T'Ien-Wen / Goldblatt, Howard / Lin, Sylvia![Notes of a Desolate Man](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/937/9374581/CHSBZCOP039374581.jpg)
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...