The Uninvited!

Finished reading 'The Univited'..also known as 'The Banquet Bug':

http://www.amazon.com/BANQUET-BUG-Geling-Yan/dp/1401366651

Good book. Read it in 2 days. A very fast read and very interesting idea.

You feel for the 'stupid' hero. It depicts the reality of China and not the
all embracing positive productive image that is projected by the powers that be!

Though I found the backcover story line to not follow the actual story. Don't know
if the book went through severe editorial stuff since it's first publication or
something or just that the back cover story line was written by some guy who only
heard about the book and actually didn't get to read it! That's a posibility too!

In any case, quite a book to enjoy. Geling Yan did a good job. Though in some
places there were heavy signs of editing that made for some impression of 
disjointedness. Don't know if this was a literary mechanism or problem. Who can tell.

At least, I liked what I read. You get to really like the characters and the writer
makes you care for them. The books dishes the journalist for some good measure. But
given the state of the Media in the world, who can blame her? What her hero does,
is I guess is done by many a journalist where they have the trappings of Journalism
and in the mean time they just copy and paste somebody's propaganda....