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- Book Title
- Perfect Crime
- Publication Name
- A Perfect Crime
- Title
- A Perfect Crime
- Translator
- Anna Holmwood
- Contributor
- Anna Holmwood (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1780749295
- EAN
- 9781780749297
- ISBN
- 9781780749297
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / General, Crime, General
- Release Date
- 04/02/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Item Weight
- 7.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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A chilling literary thriller about a motiveless murder in provincial China 'One of the most important voices to emerge from the People's Republic in years' Daily Express On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins. A shocking investigation into the despair that traps the rural poor as well as a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense, A Perfect Crime is a thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka's absurdism, Camus' nihilism and Dostoyevsky's depravity. With exceptional tonal control, A Yi steadily reveals the psychological backstory that enables us to make sense of the story's dramatic violence and provides chillingly apt insights into a country on the cusp of enormous social, political and economic change.
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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
ISBN-10
1780749295
ISBN-13
9781780749297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217180733
Product Key Features
Book Title
Perfect Crime
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / General, Crime, General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl2972.5
Reviews
'Doused in blood and gushing with ethical conundrums, A Yi's A Perfect Crime is a disconcerting medley of misanthropy, escapism, and media monstrosities. Woven from tales garnered in the author's previous career in law enforcement, Yi's psychological insights are frequently bookended by realistic renditions of urban China's legal processes. Where Anthony Burgess sought to conjure a world of abstract flair and inexplicable cruelty in A Clockwork Orange , Yi strikes a far deeper chord, delving into the mind of a youth whose lethal motivations are abundantly and undeniably troubling.', 'Achieves something we haven't seen in Chinese fiction for a while - a refreshingly non-verbose, verb-driven, first-person narrative of taut tension (reflected brilliantly in Anna Holmwood's translation)...[the] writing is pared back, short, driven by pace, and very to the point...a rollercoaster read, so grip the seat, hang on, and be prepared only to relax when you've got to the end of the ride.', 'Doused in blood and gushing with ethical conundrums, A Yi's A Perfect Crime is a disconcerting medley of misanthropy, escapism, and media monstrosities. Woven from tales garnered in the author's previous career in law enforcement, Yi's psychological insights are frequently bookended by realistic renditions of urban China's legal processes. Where Anthony Burgess sought to conjure a world of abstract flair and inexplicable cruelty in A Clockwork Orange, Yi strikes a far deeper chord, delving into the mind of a youth whose lethal motivations are abundantly and undeniably troubling.', 'A Yi's isolated narrator is equal parts calculating monster and forsaken victim: deserted, neglected and ignored, he finds that his only means of feeling alive is to engender death. This austere English PEN Award winner offers an exponentially more chilling alternative to the plethora of dystopic titles; fans of Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Fuminori Nakamura and even Keigo Higashino will surely find resonating, realistic terror here., "One of the most talked about writers of fiction in China.... What lends A Yi's writing its power is the way it is informed by his work as a policeman -- a career that constantly exposed him to the country's grubby underworld. In this way, the book calls to mind 19th-century French Modernists like Baudelaire and Rimbaud who shared a profound disgust for their society's conventional values, or Cline, a descendant of theirs who took their biting cynicism to a whole new level. As with A Yi, they each responded to their society's newfound industrial wealth with a contemptuous: That's all?" --Howard French in The Wall Street Journal "Tightly crafted ... less a traditional catch-him-if-you-can crime caper and more a psychological probe into a pathological mind. Rather than cliff-hangers or plot twists, it's the pulsating inner zeal of this nihilistic 19-year-old that gives the book its verve.... The author's background has provided him with rich pickings to portray China, both in the grim, claustrophobic poverty of rural life and later in the corrupt actions of the lawyers and police.... A PERFECT CRIME may be anchored in Chinese society, but its existential crisis is universal. " --Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore in The Wall Street Journal "A former police officer who writes from experience, A Yi excels in his vivid, sordid portrait of contemporary China. It's a heartbreaking tale of a rotten, alienated society fueled by greed - a nation in moral crisis." --South China Morning Post "A terrifying, technically flawless account of moral darkness within the contemporary People's Republic, by one of mainland China's most accomplished and promising young novelists." --Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China "A Yi is one of the most gifted Chinese authors in recent times." --Nobel Prize winning poet, Bei Dao "This impressively nasty account of a motiveless murder could well be said to mark a fiendishly clever point where Albert Camus nods benignly to Bret Easton Ellis.... It is as much about the society in which it takes place as it is about the killer or the crime." --The Irish Times "A Yi's isolated narrator is equal parts calculating monster and forsaken victim: deserted, neglected, and ignored, he finds that his only means of feeling alive is to engender death. This austere English PEN Award winner offers an exponentially more chilling alternative to the plethora of dystopic titles; fans of Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Fuminori Nakamura, and even Keigo Higashino will surely find resonating, realistic terror here." --Library Journal "Yi, a former police officer, is slowly rising to prominence on the literary scene in China, where this novel was published in 2011. It seems a commentary on both the culture and on the amorality and emotional detachment of one individual in it. " --Booklist, 'Yi, a former police officer, is slowly rising to prominence on the literary scene in China, where this novel was published in 2011. A Perfect Crime is a commentary on both the culture and on the amorality and emotional detachment of one individual in it.', "Tightly crafted . . . less a traditional catch-him-if-you-can crime caper and more a psychological probe into a pathological mind." -- The Wall Street Journal "Disturbingly convincing." -- The Complete Review "Startling . . . sheds light on a country undergoing huge social, political and economic change . . . one of the most important voices to emerge from the People's Republic in years." -- Daily Express, ' A Perfect Crime ...shows A Yi to be one of the most important voices to emerge from the People's Republic in years.', 'Shimmering sentences and jolts of original thinking...break through the taut, descriptive prose like shafts of sunshine in a strip-lit room.', A SELECTION OF GREAT GROUP READS "One of the most talked about writers of fiction in China.... What lends A Yi's writing its power is the way it is informed by his work as a policeman -- a career that constantly exposed him to the country's grubby underworld. In this way, the book calls to mind 19th-century French Modernists like Baudelaire and Rimbaud who shared a profound disgust for their society's conventional values, or Céline, a descendant of theirs who took their biting cynicism to a whole new level. As with A Yi, they each responded to their society's newfound industrial wealth with a contemptuous: That's all?" --Howard French in The Wall Street Journal "Tightly crafted ... less a traditional catch-him-if-you-can crime caper and more a psychological probe into a pathological mind. Rather than cliff-hangers or plot twists, it's the pulsating inner zeal of this nihilistic 19-year-old that gives the book its verve.... The author's background has provided him with rich pickings to portray China, both in the grim, claustrophobic poverty of rural life and later in the corrupt actions of the lawyers and police.... A PERFECT CRIME may be anchored in Chinese society, but its existential crisis is universal. " --Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore in The Wall Street Journal "A former police officer who writes from experience, A Yi excels in his vivid, sordid portrait of contemporary China. It's a heartbreaking tale of a rotten, alienated society fueled by greed - a nation in moral crisis." --South China Morning Post "A terrifying, technically flawless account of moral darkness within the contemporary People's Republic, by one of mainland China's most accomplished and promising young novelists." --Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China "A Yi is one of the most gifted Chinese authors in recent times." --Nobel Prize winning poet, Bei Dao "This impressively nasty account of a motiveless murder could well be said to mark a fiendishly clever point where Albert Camus nods benignly to Bret Easton Ellis.... It is as much about the society in which it takes place as it is about the killer or the crime." --The Irish Times "A Yi's isolated narrator is equal parts calculating monster and forsaken victim: deserted, neglected, and ignored, he finds that his only means of feeling alive is to engender death. This austere English PEN Award winner offers an exponentially more chilling alternative to the plethora of dystopic titles; fans of Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Fuminori Nakamura, and even Keigo Higashino will surely find resonating, realistic terror here." --Library Journal "Yi, a former police officer, is slowly rising to prominence on the literary scene in China, where this novel was published in 2011. It seems a commentary on both the culture and on the amorality and emotional detachment of one individual in it. " --Booklist, 'Tightly crafted...less a traditional catch-him-if-you-can crime caper and more a psychological probe into a pathological mind.', 'Startling...sheds light on a country undergoing huge social, political and economic change...one of the most important voices to emerge from the People's Republic in years.', "One of the most talked about writers of fiction in China.... What lends A Yi's writing its power is the way it is informed by his work as a policeman -- a career that constantly exposed him to the country's grubby underworld. In this way, the book calls to mind 19th-century French Modernists like Baudelaire and Rimbaud who shared a profound disgust for their society's conventional values, or Céline, a descendant of theirs who took their biting cynicism to a whole new level. As with A Yi, they each responded to their society's newfound industrial wealth with a contemptuous: That's all?" --Howard French in The Wall Street Journal "Tightly crafted ... less a traditional catch-him-if-you-can crime caper and more a psychological probe into a pathological mind. Rather than cliff-hangers or plot twists, it's the pulsating inner zeal of this nihilistic 19-year-old that gives the book its verve.... The author's background has provided him with rich pickings to portray China, both in the grim, claustrophobic poverty of rural life and later in the corrupt actions of the lawyers and police.... A PERFECT CRIME may be anchored in Chinese society, but its existential crisis is universal. " --Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore in The Wall Street Journal "A former police officer who writes from experience, A Yi excels in his vivid, sordid portrait of contemporary China. It's a heartbreaking tale of a rotten, alienated society fueled by greed - a nation in moral crisis." --South China Morning Post "A terrifying, technically flawless account of moral darkness within the contemporary People's Republic, by one of mainland China's most accomplished and promising young novelists." --Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China "A Yi is one of the most gifted Chinese authors in recent times." --Nobel Prize winning poet, Bei Dao "This impressively nasty account of a motiveless murder could well be said to mark a fiendishly clever point where Albert Camus nods benignly to Bret Easton Ellis.... It is as much about the society in which it takes place as it is about the killer or the crime." --The Irish Times "A Yi's isolated narrator is equal parts calculating monster and forsaken victim: deserted, neglected, and ignored, he finds that his only means of feeling alive is to engender death. This austere English PEN Award winner offers an exponentially more chilling alternative to the plethora of dystopic titles; fans of Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Fuminori Nakamura, and even Keigo Higashino will surely find resonating, realistic terror here." --Library Journal "Yi, a former police officer, is slowly rising to prominence on the literary scene in China, where this novel was published in 2011. It seems a commentary on both the culture and on the amorality and emotional detachment of one individual in it. " --Booklist, 'A Perfect Crime...shows A Yi to be one of the most important voices to emerge from the People's Republic in years.'
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2016
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