The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon
A Novel of Contemporary China
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The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon
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Ewan Chung
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The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun, is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a worksite cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it, he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of China’s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China.
©2007 Liu Zhenyun; English-language translation copyright 2015 by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin (P)2015 Audible, Inc.