Playing for Thrills Author:Wang Shuo The narrator of the author's disembodied, compelling and ultimately explosive novel may or may not have committed a mysterious murder 10 yrs. earlier -- even he isn't sure. As our charismatic antihero careens around the seamy underside of Beijing, he tries to find someone who can remind him which girl he was with and what he was doing at the ti... more »me of the murder. Sometimes frightening, sometimes hilarious, always astonishing, this book is totally unlike anything ever published in China.« less