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      I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China

      by Zhu Wen
      Published
      Mar 2008
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      "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.

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      First Edition Mar 2008 Penguin ISBN13 9780143113270 ISBN10 0143113275
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      Jan 2007 Penguin ISBN13 9780141915852 ISBN10 0141915854
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      Jan 2007 Columbia University Press ISBN10 B0092WW1K4
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