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008			170314s20122012nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781681370200
050	0	0	_aPL2872.F364 _bP513 2016
082	1		_aMYS GE _2
084			_aFIC025000 _aFIC019000 _aFIC050000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aGe Fei _d(1964 -)
245	1	4	_aThe invisibility cloak _c/ Ge Fei ; translated by Canaan Morse
260			_aNew York _b: NYRB, New York Review Books _c, 2012
300			_a126 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aThe hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing - where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer godos - and he's a loser. Well into his forties, he's divorced (and still doting on his ex), childless, and living with his sister (her husband wants him out) in an apartment at the edge of town with a crack in the wall the wind from the north blows through while he gets by, just, by making customized old-fashioned amplifiers for the occasional rich audio-obsessive. He has contempt for his clients and contempt for himself. The only things he really likes are Beethoven and vintage speakers. Then an old friend tips him off about a special job - a little risky but just don't ask too many questions - and can it really be that this hopeless loser wins? This provocative and seriously funny exercise in the social fantastic by Ge Fei, one of China's finest living writers, is among the most original works of fiction to come out of China in recent years. It is sure to appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and other fabulists of contemporary irreality.
546			_aTranslated from the Chinese to English.
650		4	_aDivorced men _v--Fiction
651		4	_aChina _x-Social conditions _v--Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
700	1		_aMorse, Canaan
942			_cMO
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