“An absorbing portrait of the go-go years in China . . . Extravagantly funny.” —Jonathan Spence, London Review of Books
An immediate sensation upon publication in China, I Love Dollars is a hilarious send-up of China's love affair with capitalism by one of its most gifted new writers. In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filial duty, sets out to secure a prostitute for his father, only to haggle his old man out of a good time. Here, gleefully exposed, are the inanities of everyday life in contemporary China. As penetrating as Kafka, as outrageously funny as Larry David, and with a slangy swagger all Zhu Wen's own, I Love Dollars is priceless.
- ISBN10 2226190988
- ISBN13 9782226190987
- Publish Date 1 January 2010 (first published 26 February 2008)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country FR
- Imprint Michel albin SA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language French