by Xiaolong Qiu · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757822609
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«Les courants fourbes du lac Tai» is the crime novel by Xiaolong Qiu, published by Points in paperback (320 pages, in French).
During a holiday in Wuxi, Inspector Chen meets Shanshan, an activist fighting against a factory's discharges into Lake Tai. When the factory director is found murdered, suspicion falls on the young woman. Chen, assigned to the case, wavers between his feelings for her and an investigation that uncovers the ecological conflicts of contemporary China.
The novel is the seventh instalment in the Inspector Chen Cao series.
This book is aimed at readers of crime fiction interested in contemporary China and plots with an environmental backdrop.
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.
