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Ge Fei: The Invisibility Cloak (2017, New York Review Books Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing—where …

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3.5, really.

Strangely rootless, strangely even-tempered, even though our narrator passes just by some pretty scary shit, like an extra in Scarface set in post-Deng China where everything's for sale and nothing has value. The words high fidelity aren't actually used (to my knowledge; read the Swedish translation) but echo throughout. It's all very, very well-composed and played. It's just that Satie tends to bore me a bit, y'know?