by Qiu Xiaolong · Almuzara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788488586537
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«Muerte de una heroína roja» is the crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Almuzara in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
Shanghai, 1990. The murder of Guan Hong Ying, a Party model, becomes an awkward case amid economic transformation. Chief Inspector Chen Cao, a poet, distrusts the victim's perfect image and, with Inspector Yu Guangming, uncovers a secret life far from official propaganda. An immersion in 1990s China.
First installment in the Inspector Chen Cao series. Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and finalist for the Edgar Award.
For readers of crime fiction interested in a story with political and social background in 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.
