Death of a Red Heroine, Paperback
Descriere
Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. 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.
Despre autor
Qiu Xiaolong este un romancier chinez-american de literatură polițistă, poet, traducător, critic și academician. Născut în Shanghai, a vizitat inițial Statele Unite în 1988 pentru a scrie o carte despre T. S. Eliot, dar a rămas în SUA după protestele și masacrul din Piața Tiananmen din 1989.