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A Perfect Crime

✍ Scribed by A Yi

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
84 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1336217065

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✦ Synopsis

"Where Anthony Burgess sought to conjure a world of abstract flair and inexplicable cruelty in A Clockwork Orange , Yi strikes a far deeper chord, delving into the mind of a youth whose lethal motivations are abundantly and undeniably troubling.
_-- World Literature Today_
On a normal day in provincial China, a bored high-school student goes about his regular business. But he's planning the brutal murder of his only friend, a talented violinist. He invites her round, strangles her, stuffs her body into a washing machine and flees town. On the run, he is initially anxious, but soon he alerts the police to his whereabouts, surrenders to undercover agents in a pool bar, and sabotages all efforts by China's judiciary system, a steady stream of psychologists and his family to overturn the death penalty, all without ever showing a shred of remorse.
A PERFECT CRIME is both a vision of China's heart of darkness - the despair that traps the...

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