by Qiu Xiaolong · Almuzara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496968974
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Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police is temporarily away from the department, working for a wealthy businessman who seeks to build a large residential complex evoking the glamour of the 1930s. However, tranquility is disrupted when Yin Lige, a novelist and former member of the Red Guard, is murdered after publishing a work critical of the regime. Chen must return to active duty to collaborate with Detective Yu and find the culprit, discovering serious political implications in the case. This exciting plot reveals how the past casts its shadow on today's Chinese society.
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese American crime novelist, poet, translator, critic, and academic. Born in Shanghai, he originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but remained in the US following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
