num_pages: 330
description: Leave Me A Novel of Chengdu is an unflinching, darkly funny take on love and life in modern China. It's the story of three young men, Chen Zhong, Li Liang and Big Head Wang, and their tragi-comic struggles to make their way in Chengdu, China's fifth most populous city. Despite their aspirations in the newly capitalist China, the trio's lives are beset by dead-end jobs, gambling debts, drinking, drugs, and whoring. Chen Zhong is married to Zhao Yue. Although he loves her, he plans around with other women. But it isn't until Chen Zhong discovers that Zhao Yue is having an affiar that he realises exactly how much he stands to lose.
language: English
title: Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu
publisher: Make Do Publishing