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Wang Shuo has become one of the most provocative, influential, enchanting - and widely read - writers in China. He romanticizes young alienated rebels in much the same way that Jack Kerouac did. He explores the paradoxes and absurdities of society, as Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut do. Instead of criticizing the Communists for being autocratic, he does what is far more devastating: he mocks them for being uncool.'
- New York Times Book Review
Playing for Thrills follows the investigation of a mysterious murder that took place more than ten 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 careers around Beijing drinking beer and having sex, 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.
'The most brilliantly entertaining 'hardboiled' novel of the 90s... call it China noir. If you can imagine Raymond Chandler crossed with Bruce Lee (or maybe Richard Brautigan crossed with John Woo), that gives you the flavour... Most ultimately cool."
- Stephen King
- New York Times Book Review
Playing for Thrills follows the investigation of a mysterious murder that took place more than ten 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 careers around Beijing drinking beer and having sex, 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.
'The most brilliantly entertaining 'hardboiled' novel of the 90s... call it China noir. If you can imagine Raymond Chandler crossed with Bruce Lee (or maybe Richard Brautigan crossed with John Woo), that gives you the flavour... Most ultimately cool."
- Stephen King