A thrilling journey through China's dark criminal underworld, from a celebrated voice in Chinese literature
A Yi Livres
A Yi, ancien policier, s'est imposé comme une voix importante de la littérature chinoise contemporaine. Son œuvre explore fréquemment les aspects les plus sombres de la psychologie humaine et les tensions sociétales, en conservant un style cru et incisif. À travers ses nouvelles et ses romans, A Yi cherche à révéler les motivations cachées et les complexités morales auxquelles sont confrontés ses personnages. Son écriture est louée pour son authenticité et sa profonde capacité à capturer les subtilités de l'existence moderne.
Two Lives
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Seven stories, seven whispers into the ears of life: A Yi's unexpected twists of crime burst from the everyday, with glimpses of romance distorted by the weaknesses of human motive. A Yi employs his forensic skills to offer a series of portraits of modern life, both uniquely Chinese, and universal in their themes.
A Perfect Crime
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
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.
