I love dollars: Et autres nouvelles de la Chine profonde - Tapa blanda

An absorbing portrait of the go-go years in China . . . Extravagantly funny.
Jonathan Spence, "London Review of Books"
Brilliant . . . Fresh and very funny.
"The Seattle Times"
This wonderful book . . . is not to be missed. . . . Here are stories that would make anyone laugh. . . . ["I Love Dollars" is] classic comic fiction of the highest order.
"Taipei Times"

aAn absorbing portrait of the go-go years in China . . . Extravagantly funny.a
aJonathan Spence, "London Review of Books"
aBrilliant . . . Fresh and very funny.a
a"The Seattle Times"
aThis wonderful book . . . is not to be missed. . . . Here are stories that would make anyone laugh. . . . ["I Love Dollars" is] classic comic fiction of the highest order.a
a"Taipei Times"

Finalist for the Kiriyama Prize
"President Obama could enjoyably and profitably spend some of the many hours on the flight to Beijing by reading a few stories in this excellent collection."
-Pankaj Mishra, "The China Beat"
"Extraordinary . . . Zhu Wen has gifted us with his darkly comic view of the underbelly of the New China."
-Kiriyama Prize Judges' Citation
"A rollicking read . . . A lively look at the dark side of China's boom."
-"Time"
"This wonderful book . . . is not to be missed. . . . Here are stories that would make anyone laugh. . . . Zhu Wen makes a laughingstock out of China. . . . Great satire-think of Swift or Kurt Vonnegut-has frequently been outlandishly comic on the surface while barely managing to disguise the despair at human stupidity and viciousness that lies underneath. These six stories are very much in this tradition. . . . ["I Love Dollars" is] classic comic fiction of the highest order."
-"The Wall Stree

Cocktail explosif d'insolence et d'humour noir, I love dollars brosse le portrait halluciné de la Chine d'aujourd'hui où tout s'achète et se consomme, où sexe et amitié, en vente libre, se monnayent en yuans... ou en dollars. Mais l'envers de cette passion amoureuse avec le capitalisme, c'est un paysage social et affectif dévasté où chacun cherche à survivre comme il peut à la violence du chacun-pour-soi. A l'image de la première novella, où un écrivain avide et érotomane offre par dévotion filiale les services d'une prostituée à son honorable père, les récits réalistes et décalés de Zhu Wen, peuplés de mafieux de province, d'ouvriers sans travail et d'étudiants sans études jettent une lumière crue sur les tourments d'une société fascinée par l'argent-roi mais hantée par ses traditions.