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Più che un giallo tradizionale questo è un libro che racconta la Cina degli anni '90, il processo che da piazza Tien'anmen (in cinese semplificato 天安门广场) porterà all'attuale potenza mondiale che ha in mano praticamente tutto il debito degli Stati Uniti.
Un ispettore capo di polizia a tempo perso che in realtà farebbe volentieri il poeta e il traduttore di gialli, lavora ad un'indagine sull'omicidio di una bella e giovane donna lavoratrice modello della nazione. I nodi arrivano al pettine quando ...more
Un ispettore capo di polizia a tempo perso che in realtà farebbe volentieri il poeta e il traduttore di gialli, lavora ad un'indagine sull'omicidio di una bella e giovane donna lavoratrice modello della nazione. I nodi arrivano al pettine quando ...more
I enjoyed this look at life in urban China. I do not know how much of it is a real view of living in a city in China and how much of it is fiction, but I found the atmosphere to be so very different from my own experiences. The whodunit part of this story was interesting as well. But I really found the impressions and explanations about the lifestyle fascinating.
Chief Inspector (and poet) Chen takes on a difficult and sensitive murder investigation in Shanghai in 1990. The mystery is only part of the interest of the book. It is told against a rapidly changing background a year after Tiamen Square as the "educated youth" who have spent their young years in the rural areas settle into their careers after returning to the cities, as a market economy starts to unfold for everyday people. We see the difficulty of shortages of housing and phones and transport
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The book begins with the body of a woman being found in a remote canal near Shanghai. Chief Inspector Chen and Detective Yu from the Special Case Squad are assigned the case. They soon find out the woman was Guan Hongying, a national model worker. The book is set in China a year or so after Tianamen Square. It was interesting to read about China during this time period. I don't know if there is still a housing shortage in Shanghai but the housing situation described in the book was pretty horrib
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