num_pages: 240
description: From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent timely novel that follows an aspiring author an outrageous book idea and a lone journalists dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by the Chinese diaspora around the world. Danlins explosive exposs have made him legendary among readersand feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife Yan Haili an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom.Hailis scheme infuriates Danlin both morally and personallyhe will do whatever it takes to expose her as a fraud. But in outing Haili he is also provoking her powerful political allies and he will need to draw on all of his journalistic cunning to emerge from this investigation with his careerand his lifestill intact. A brilliant darkly funny story of corruption integrity and the power of the pen The Boat Rocker is a tour de force of modern fiction.
language: English
title: The Boat Rocker
publisher: Pantheon