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Linda Jaivin is the author of eight books, including five novels and a novella, a collection of essays (Confessions of an S&M Virgin) and a China memoir (Monkey and the Dragon). Her first novel was the internationally bestselling comic erotic Eat Me. Her latest is the historical novel A Most Immoral Woman, which is set in China and Japan in 1904 and based on a true story. She is also a translator from Chinese and a playwright. She lives in Sydney.


There was a Frenchman, there was a kiss. And now there is a story.

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Average rating: 3.35 · 345 ratings · 63 reviews · 9 distinct works
Eat Me
3.26 of 5 stars 326 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions
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3.43 of 5 stars 343 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
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A Most Immoral Woman
3.35 of 5 stars 335 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Miles Walker, You're Dead
3.19 of 5 stars 319 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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The Infernal Optimist
4.13 of 5 stars 413 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006
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3.8 of 5 stars 380 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001
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Dead Sexy
3.6 of 5 stars 360 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Confessions Of An S & M Virgin
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
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A Superficial Journey Through Tokyo And Peking by Peter Quennell
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Peter Quennell's observations of Peking in the 1930s are superb. His comparisons of Japan and China are fascinating as well. I first read this in the 1980s, when Geremie Barmé (who provides an introduction to the 1986 edition shown here) recommended...more
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Powerful, elegantly written essays that centre on themes of identity, migration, displacement and exile.
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The Informers
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Riveting, and beautifully written, a story about the consequences of history and betrayal, or as the narrator of The Secret History of Castaguana, another one of Juan Gabriel Vasquez's books puts it, the 'disasters that Great Moments can impress onto...more
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