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The Eye of Jade Book
It’s hardly surprising that this beautifully turned novel about a strong-willed Chinese woman working as a private investigator in Beijing is such a delight: the cachet that accompanies most novels published by Picador is usually in place: as it most certainly is with Diane Wei Liang’s The Eye of Jade. What makes the novel particularly interesting is its refusal to be slotted into any one genre: it’s a literary novel, undoubtedly (the publisher’s imprint guarantees that); it’s also a crime novel, pushing satisfactorily most of the buttons that we expect in that field. And it’s a comedy: the sardonic humour involving the heroine’s fraught relations with those around her are perfectly judged. Mei, the protagonist, is an investigator. A friend of her mother, known as ‘Uncle … read more...
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