Murong Xuecun
Auteur van Leave Me Alone
Over de Auteur
Werken van Murong Xuecun
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Xuecun, Murong
- Geboortedatum
- 1974
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- China
Leden
Besprekingen
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 5
- Leden
- 53
- Populariteit
- #303,173
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 14
- Talen
- 4
It is a dark and steamy story of a car salesman who is cheating on his wife with his best friend’s fiancee, among others, and viciously jockeying for position with his colleagues. It was originally published on the online bulletin board of the company where the author worked as, er, a car salesman. It’s brutally honest self-observation by the main character; not quite Joyce or Salinger, but a gripping window into a society which is not really so very different from ours. Although I suppose a lot of the action could happen anywhere, the setting feels firmly rooted in the sordid suburbs and old-fashioned rural periphery of Chengdu, and the couple of locations that I checked out did seem to really exist. It’s a shame that the protagonist is such an asshole, but of course that is really the point.… (meer)