The Boat Rocker: A Novel (Vintage International)

by Ha Jin

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for The Boat Rocker

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency whose website is read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin’s explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers—and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom.
 
Haili’s scheme infuriates Danlin both morally and personally—he will do whatever it takes to expose her as a fraud. But in outing Haili, he is also provoking her powerful political allies, and he will need to draw on all of his journalistic cunning to come out of this investigation with his career—and his life—unscathed. A brilliant, darkly funny story of corruption, integrity, and the power of the pen, The Boat Rocker is a tour de force.
  • ISBN10 0804170371
  • ISBN13 9780804170376
  • Publish Date 17 October 2017 (first published 1 March 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Vintage