© Columbia University Press
I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
January, 2007
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13694-5
$26.50
/ £15.50
"Highly readable." — Publishers Weekly
"Zhu Wen has a brilliant feel for detail in this colloquial, slangy translation." — Wingate Packard, Seattle Times
"Brilliant... Wonderful... I Love Dollars is a publication that's not to be missed." — Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times
"Splendidly translated by Julia Lovell... an absorbing portrait of the go-go years in China." — Jonathan Spence, London Review of Books
"Zhu Wen's fiction is written in a relaxed, comic style that is both engaging and insightful in its aubtle delineation of profound social issues. His strengths as a literary stylist are his attention to detail, his imagination, his intelligence, and his irony, resulting in vignettes of everyday life that register at multiple levels." — Robin L. Visser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Through these irreverent and darkly amusing narratives, Zhu Wen articulates a new literary sensibility and offers a relentlessly sharp-eyed commentary on everyday life in contemporary China. His rambling, neurotic, and often hapless first-person narrator finds in sarcasm the best way to cope with the concretely absurd world that he inhabits. Listen to him and you will find yourself drawn into situations not all that different from what has made the TV show Seinfeld so memorable." — Xiaobing Tang, University of Southern California