by Qiu Xiaolong · Marsilio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788831739146
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«La misteriosa morte della compagna Guan» is the crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Marsilio in paperback (544 pages, in Italian).
In 1990s Shanghai, Inspector Chen Cao, a poet and head of the special cases team, investigates the death of Guan Hongying, an exemplary figure of Party propaganda, found in a canal. The case reveals political implications and pressure to cover it up, but Chen risks his career to find the truth.
First installment of the Inspector Chen Cao series, winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2001.
For crime fiction readers seeking political intrigue plots and a contemporary China setting.
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.
