I Deliver Parcels in Beijing On Making a Living
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Penguin Books Ltd
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
28.10.2025
Verlag
Penguin Books LtdSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
22.1/14.5/3.2 cm
Gewicht
440 g
Farbe
Aquamarin
Übersetzt von
Hargreaves Jack
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-241-73382-0
In the twenty years following Hu Anyan's high school graduation, he has held nineteen different jobs. He's been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a security guard and a delivery driver, among other things. He's moved from city to city in China, moving away every time the work gets too intense or the bosses too bossy, making a home in rented rooms and carrying almost nothing with him except his copies of Chekhov and Carver. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is his account of his life as a low-wage worker in the anonymous mega-cities of modern China. From the psychology of the pecking order on a parcel-sorting factory floor to the perfect alcohol dose to get some daylight shut-eye before a punishing night shift, from the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the hiring departments to the ideal layout of a delivery route, Hu's sincere curiosity and deadpan humour highlight the human story behind the drudgery. Harnessing his love of literature, Hu begins to discover a new, freeing way of looking at and recording his world.
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