The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon: A Novel of Contemporary China SS_Gift_Guide Combining the keen narrative detail

Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding

and the clarity that comes from allowing that anger to burn clean

"a heroine to cherish" (New York Times Book Review)

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he must set aside his history as a peaceful healer and idealist and play the brutal role of Hussite spy as crusades sweep through Silesia and the Czech Republic

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon: A Novel of Contemporary China SS_Gift_Guide Combining the keen narrative detailWinner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by the acclaimed prize winning novelist Liu Zhenyun, is a gripping portrayal of contemporary China through the lens of one mans unexpected discovery. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin is a work site cook and small time thief whose accidental find of a flash disk chronicling a web of high level corruption sets off a convoluted chase. Set against the economic extremes of