A perfect crime
Title:
A perfect crime
Author:
Ayi, 1976-
Holmwood, Anna.
ISBN:
9781780749297
Uniform Title:
貓和老鼠. English
Publication Information:
London : Point Blank, 2015.
Physical Description:
210 p. ; 20 cm
General Note:
Translated from: 貓和老鼠.
First published in English in North America, Great Britain & Australia by: Oneworld, 2015.
Abstract:
On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins. A shocking investigation into the despair that traps the rural poor as well as a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense, A Perfect Crime is a thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka's absurdism, Camus' nihilism and Dostoyevsky's depravity.
Geographic Term:
Language:
Translated from the Chinese.
Subject:
| Murder -- Fiction. |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction. |
| Chinese fiction -- Translations into English. |
| Teenagers -- Fiction. |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| China -- Fiction. |
Summary:
On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins. A shocking investigation into the despair that traps the rural poor as well as a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense, A Perfect Crime is a thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka's absurdism, Camus' nihilism and Dostoyevsky's depravity.