by Qiu Xiaolong · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483833711
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«Muerte de una heroína roja» is the crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (440 pages, in Spanish).
In May 1990, the discovery of a young woman's body in a canal near Shanghai leads Chief Inspector Chen Cao, recently promoted, to a delicate case: the victim, an exemplary employee of a department store, was a symbol of the Party. The investigation reveals secrets and corruption, and portrays China in transition.
First installment of the police series featuring Chief Inspector Chen Cao; corresponds to volume 773 of the Andanzas collection.
For readers who appreciate investigative stories with social background and a setting far from the usual: 1990s 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.
