SOAS Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
A Perfect Crime
A Yi 阿乙 (author) in conversation with Xiaoning Lu (SOAS)
14:00-16:00
Venue: Room G51, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Synopsis
On a normal day in provincial China, a bored high-school student goes about his regular business. But he’s planning the brutal murder of his only friend, a talented violinist. He invites her round, strangles her, stuffs her body into a washing machine and flees town. On the run, he is initially anxious, but soon he alerts the police to his whereabouts, surrenders to undercover agents in a pool bar, and sabotages all efforts by China’s judiciary system, a steady stream of psychologists and his family to overturn the death penalty, all without ever showing a shred of remorse.
Biography
A Yi 阿乙 is a Chinese writer living in Beijing. He worked as a police officer for five years before becoming the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Chutzpah. He is the author of two short story collections Grey Stories and The Bird Saw Me and has published Guaren, a book of observations, blog posts and sketches. His novella A Perfect Crime, translated by Anna Holmwood, is the winner of the 2014 PEN Promotes award. In 2010 A Yi was shortlisted for the People's Literature Top 20 Literary Giants of the Future.
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Li-Sa Whittington
Executive Officer, SOAS China Institute
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