by Qiu Xiaolong · Marsilio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788831794558
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«Ratti rossi» is the crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Marsilio in paperback (322 pages, in Italian).
Inspector Chen investigates the death of a policeman in Shanghai while he was looking into the business dealings of Xing Xing, a Party financier who fled to the United States. With Catherine Rohn he follows the suspect to America and confronts the Triads and the powers that be to uncover the truth; the «ratti rossi» of the title are those who abuse their authority.
The novel is part of Marsilio's Farfalle collection, dedicated to crime fiction.
For readers of noir fiction interested in contemporary China and plots of corruption and power.
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.
