Notes of a Crocodile - Qiu MiaojinPaperback. The New York Review of Book. 2017 (1994). New Condition Set in the post martial law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming of age of a group 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, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries,