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I deliver parcels in Beijing : on making a living

Hu, Anyan, 1979-2025
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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 many other things). He moves from city to city in China, slipping away any time the work gets too punishing or the bosses too bossy, carrying with him nothing but his copies of Chekhov and Carver. 'I Deliver Parcels in Beijing' is Hu's account of his life as a low-wage labourer working to live, not living to work.
Main title:
I deliver parcels in Beijing : on making a living / Hu AnYan ; translated by Jack Hargreaves.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2025.
Collation:
xii, 319 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Chinese.This translation originally published: New York: Astra House.
ISBN:
9780241733820 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
895.18609B895.186BHUHU
Language:
EnglishChinese
BRN:
8941888
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