The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon

Name: The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon
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By: Liu Zhenyun, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin (Translator), Howard Goldblatt (Translator)

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Paperback | 18 March 2025

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288 Pages

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22.89 x 15.27

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Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun, 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 work site 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.

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