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The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon (AKA I Am Liu Yuejin) by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption.The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of China’s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China.
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The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, Zhenyun Liu, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Titel
- The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon
- Untertitel
- A Novel of Contemporary China
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Zhenyun Liu, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
- Verlag
- Arcade
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1628725206
- ISBN13
- 9781628725209
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Weltliteratur, Handel, Krimi & Thriller, Thriller, Gegenwartsliteratur, Politik, USA, Asien, China, Literarische Kritik, Reisen, Städte, Kommunismus, Nobelpreis, Sagen, Familiensagas, Bestseller, Reichtum, Chinesische Literatur, Diebe, Räuber, Immobilien, Chinesisch, Peking, Rote Armee, Eliten
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- 3,6 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon (AKA I Am Liu Yuejin) by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption.The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of China’s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China.