A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal.
As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth.
Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.
Sobre el Autor:
Qiu Xiaolong (Shanghai, 1953 – ). He was selected for membership in the Chinese Writers’ Association and published poetry, translations and criticism in China.
He has lived in the United States since 1989 and has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature awarded by Washington University. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Present Tense, River Styx, Riverfront Times, and in several anthologies.
He has been the recipient of the Missouri Biennial Award, the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award, a Yaddo and a Ford Foundation Fellowship. He teaches Chinese Literature at University College of Washington University and lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter.
