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Stephen King called Playing for Thrills, Wang Shuo’s
stupendous debut novel, ‘perhaps the most brilliantly
entertaining hardboiled novel of the 90s... Raymond
Chandler crossed with Bruce Lee.’
Wang Shuo, easily China’s coolest and most popular
novelist, applies his genius for satire and cultural
irreverence to one of the world's sacred rituals, the
Olympic Games. In Please Don’t Call Me Human, he
imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on
the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizens’
capacity for humiliation — and China is determined to
win at any cost. The novel's anti-hero is a slacker
pedicab driver from Beijing, a degenerate nihilist who
rips off his own face in order to win the gold for China.
Banned in China for its ‘rudeness’ and ‘vulgarity’, this
astonishing, tripped-out novel is filled with the kind of
word play and outlandish antics that have earned Wang
Shuo his own genre, ‘hooligan literature’.
stupendous debut novel, ‘perhaps the most brilliantly
entertaining hardboiled novel of the 90s... Raymond
Chandler crossed with Bruce Lee.’
Wang Shuo, easily China’s coolest and most popular
novelist, applies his genius for satire and cultural
irreverence to one of the world's sacred rituals, the
Olympic Games. In Please Don’t Call Me Human, he
imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on
the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizens’
capacity for humiliation — and China is determined to
win at any cost. The novel's anti-hero is a slacker
pedicab driver from Beijing, a degenerate nihilist who
rips off his own face in order to win the gold for China.
Banned in China for its ‘rudeness’ and ‘vulgarity’, this
astonishing, tripped-out novel is filled with the kind of
word play and outlandish antics that have earned Wang
Shuo his own genre, ‘hooligan literature’.