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发帖数: 7349 | 1 Beijing-based Ge Fei (pen name for Liu Yong) won the 2015 Mao Dun Literature
Prize for fiction “depicting the changing spirit of Chinese society” over
the past century.
The Invisibility Cloak, his first English publication, revolves around Cui,
a divorced man who creates custom-made hi-fi speakers for Beijing’s newly
wealthy and a few intellectuals. As he installs a new KT88 amplifier for a
professor who lives in “the Brownstones”, the sardonic Cui points out that
the housing is infamous because the district mayor was executed for
accepting millions in bribes for such real estate deals. Beijing’s rapid
expansion has left Cui yearning for an invisible life away from the city.
His chance comes when he agrees to build a world-class sound system for a
gangster. Ge Fei’s delectable irony, translated from the Chinese by Canaan
Morse, should find many fans. |
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