Last Words From MontmartreLast Words From Montmartre

A novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lovers and, ultimately, the complete unraveling of the narrator. The book opens with the death of a beloved pet rabbit and closes with a portentous expression of the narrator's resolve to kill herself. In between we follow Qiu's protagonist into the streets of Montmartre, into descriptions of affairs with both men and women, French and Taiwanese, into rhapsodic musings on the works of Theodoros Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky, and into wrenching and clear-eyed outlines of what it means to exist not only between cultures but, to a certain extent, between and among genders.