by Qiu Xiaolong · Maxi-Tusquets · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490663585
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In the special cases brigade of Shanghai, everyone is stunned: with the excuse of promoting him to a bureaucratic position, they have removed Chief Inspector Chen from the most delicate files. After verifying that they are trying to lure him into a trap, Chen decides to move away from Shanghai, although this will not prevent him from attending to the request for help from a beautiful and melancholic young woman. Chen gets involved in a case decidedly full of mines, while investigating those who persecute him to the point of putting a price on his life. The now former inspector faces the most dangerous investigation of his career, precisely when an ambitious senior official and his wife embody a communist renewal. And it is that while the revolutionary songs still resonate in everyone's minds, and despite the propaganda that speaks of transparency and modernization, ambition and corruption run rampant in today's 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.
