LEAVE ME ALONE, NOVEL BY CHENGDU – Romance, by Murong Xuecun

Leave me alone, novel of Chengdu (historically, Chengdu has been the center of China’s food culture, and is famous for its laid-back lifestyle), is an unflinching, darkly funny take on love and life in modern China. It’s the story of three young men, Chen Zhong, Li Liang and Big Head Wang and their tragi-comic struggles to make their way in Chengdu, China’s fifth most populous city. Despite their aspirations in the newly capitalist China, the trio’s lives are beset by dead-end jobs, gambling debts, drinking, drugs, and whoring. This novel reveals a China that is bawdy, rousing and flowing with excess, whether it’s excessive drinking, sex, gambling, corruption, or all of the above. Lives are lived to destruction, both of the self and of others. The dream of middle class life turns out to be empty and unfulfilling in a world where money is king. Murong Xuecun made waves for his outspoken critique of censorship, revealing that he and other acclaimed writers self-censor their works.

http://www.amazon.it/Leave-Me-Alone-Novel-Chengdu/dp/9881841933