by Xiaolong Qiu · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757869079
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«Il était une fois l'inspecteur Chen» is the crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Points in paperback (240 pages, in French).
Chen Cao, policeman and poet, faces his first investigation after the murder of a merchant who was dispossessed during the Cultural Revolution and later rehabilitated. The case, with corruption ramifications, forces him to revisit childhood memories, marked by the public denunciation and humiliation of his father in Mao's China.
Part of the Inspector Chen Cao series. Published by Points in October 2017. Translated from English by Adélaïde Pralon.
For readers of crime and detective fiction interested in Mao's China and the cases of Inspector Chen Cao.
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.
