by Qiu Xiaolong · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020488877
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«Mort d'une héroïne rouge» is the crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Points in paperback (512 pages, in French).
Shanghai, 1990. Two fishermen find the body of a young woman in a canal. Chief Inspector Chen and his assistant Yu discover that the victim, Guan Hongying, Model Worker of the Nation, was raped and strangled. The investigation reveals that behind the official facade lie secrets that affect even the most respected comrades.
First installment of the Inspector Chen Cao series. Originally published in English as 'Death of a Red Heroine' in 2000, it won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2001.
For fans of crime fiction and contemporary China, with a poet inspector and a plot of investigation and social critique.
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.
