The price comes from the shop and can change. Check price, size and delivery on the shop's page before you order.
Where Anthony Burgess sought to conjure a world of abstract flair and inexplicable cruelty inA 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 TodayOn 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. “Where Anthony Burgess sought to conjure a world of abstract flair and inexplicable cruelty inA 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 TodayOn 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. "
