The cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon a novel of contemporary China
"A darkly humorous novel of contemporary China. Liu Yuejin, a work site cook and small-time thief, searches for his stolen bag but finds another that contains a flash disk chronicling high-level corruption, which sets off a convoluted chase"--Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Chinese |
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New York, NY :
Arcade Publishing,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First English-language edition. |
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| Summary: | "A darkly humorous novel of contemporary China. Liu Yuejin, a work site cook and small-time thief, searches for his stolen bag but finds another that contains a flash disk chronicling high-level corruption, which sets off a convoluted chase"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Chinese as "Wo jiao Liu Yuejin." |
| Physical Description: | 280 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781628725209 (hardcover) 1628725206 (hardcover) |
| Author Notes: | Howard Goldblatt is a literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction from mainland China and Taiwan, including Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan, five of whose works are published by Arcade ( The Garlic Ballads ; The Republic of Wine ; Big Breasts and Wide Hips ; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out ; Shifu , You'll Do Anything for a Laugh ). He has also translated works by Liu Zhenyun ( I Did Not Kill My Husband ; The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon ; Remembering 1942 , which are published by Arcade), Huang Chunming ( The Taste of Apples ), and Chen Ruoxi ( The Execution of Mayor Yin ). He taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado. Sylvia Li-chun Lin is a Taiwanese-born Chinese-English translator and a former professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Notre Dame. She won the Lian Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize and has translated the works of Liu Zhenyun, Bi Feiyu, Mo Yan, You Jin, among others. |
