by Qiu Xiaolong · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483838341
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In May 1990, Captain Gao Ziling discovers the body of a young woman in a canal near Shanghai. The victim turns out to be a model worker and local celebrity. Chief Inspector Chen Cao is assigned to the case and must unravel the secrets behind the death of this 'red heroine'. This is the first installment in the Chief Inspector Chen Cao series, a series of crime novels that transports readers to the social and cultural reality of modern China.
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.
