A Yi is a Chinese writer living in Beijing. He worked as a police officer before becoming editor-in-chief of Chutzpah. He is the author of two collections of short stories and has published fiction in Granta and the Guardian. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the People’s Literature Top 20 Literary Giants of the Future.
My Opinion: I finished reading "A Perfect Crime". The story is simple, on a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he’s also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins. Much of it was too deep for me to follow. I finished it from a sense of obligation, looking for the meaning of it. It ended without me finding that meaning. Too obscure for me. I'm not likely to read another of his works.