![]() Yes, as it begins, it may seem to be the paragon of the break-up novel with page after page of incriminations, recriminations, pleading, apologizing, proselytizing, and declaring. The dramatic way she lived and ended her life does not overshadow this novel, but becomes an intense, self-examined manifestation of how desperately she wanted to engage in it. Qiu Miaojin, the young Taiwanese lesbian writer, committed suicide at the age of twenty-six before it was published, before it became “a bible for lesbians” in Taiwan and before her first novel, Notes of a Crocodile, won the esteemed China Times Honorary Award for Literature. Last Words from Montmartre is a loaded piece of work before you ever begin reading it. ![]() Last Words from Montmartre – By Qiu Miaojin, Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich Monica Carter is a writer and freelance critic. ![]()
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