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ISBN: 9781842432969
Price: £7.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 320pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
Pub. Date: June 2008

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wang Shuo became a best-selling author in China, with over 20 novels and 10 million copies in print, appealing across the spectrum from the business community to factory workers and students and resulting in his collected works being banned in China in 1996. He now lives in Los Angeles. Playing for Thrills was his first novel to be made available in the West and was followed by Please Don't Call Me Human, also published by No Exit Press.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Playing for Thrills follows the investigation of a mysterious murder of a possibly imaginary character that took place more than 10 years before. The chief suspect is the narrator of the novel who may or may not have committed the crime – even he isn't sure. As our charismatic antihero careens around Beijing drinking beer, having sex and questioning a bunch of people who speak like characters in a gangster movie, he tries to find someone who can remind him which girl he was with and what he was doing at the time of the murder. Suddenly the narrative explodes and the reader is thrust into a countdown leading up to the crime itself. The result is a frightening, sometimes hilarious, always astonishing novel that is totally unlike anything ever published from China before.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'The most brilliantly entertaining "hardboiled" novel... call it China noir.' - Stephen King [read the full review]

'China's Kerouac' - New York Times