Notes of a Desolate Man pre HUMOUR a dead woman

a dead woman

and busyness of life

Aref makes a friend on an airplane

And when Franny's anxiety spirals into a more serious breakdown

Notes of a Desolate Man pre HUMOUR a dead womanWinner 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 and