<p>1980s, China. Dizzying reforms are sweeping across its Central Plain as the nation is told that to get rich is glorious. Swept up in the hope of a better tomorrow, Li Delin, a brilliant scientist of humble background, and his fellow villager, the flower seller Liu Jinding, share an ambition to rise from their unassuming rural origins. In this new age of excess, few care for the old values. Li’s honest talent and hard graft earn him power in provincial politics, from which Liu extracts his own profitable empire. Neither are ready when they become surrounded by feigned friends selling false assurances. Exploited and betrayed by those he used to confide in, Li’s career is soon enveloped in corruption and tragedy. Attempts at a resolution simply dig him deeper into crisis. As the walls start to close in, who can he count on? He was never prepared for this fight.</p>

Graft

Literature & Fiction

Li Peifu

Contemporary

ACA Publishing

<p>"I, the protagonist of the book am an intellectual from village, the son of a villager. From village, provincial capital, Beijing to Shanghai, I used to be a college teacher, a marksman when drifting in Beijing, a trader in stock market and a manager in a listed company. Profound, calm, restraining and temperance, I am related to a series of characters such as Luotuo, young uncle-in-law, Liang Wufang and Aunt Chong. In the complex social relations among these people, we can see the confusing world among cities and villages. Finally, in dramatic change of the era, I lost the dependence and piety of spirit and became a true orphan of the time. He got stabbed in the eye, lying in hospital to retrospect his splendor and loss while another protagonist Luotuo commits suicide. "</p>

Book of Life (Chinese Edition)

People's Literature Publishing House

The Golden House (Chinese Edition)

Huaxia Publishing House

Life (Hardcover Edition) (Chinese Edition)

Tiandi Publishing House

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Li Peifu. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Li Peifu