A telemarketer's secret diary

Author: Jia Ji
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: At midnight, you breathe heavily, restless, and you want to dial a hotline? Even in a fictional plot, there hides fragments of truth and pain like broken brocade and rainbows. Facing a thin phone line, only she bears a faint smile in enduring, with longing and unrestrainedness, unveiling the little-known behind-the-scenes secrets of the voice service operator J·J. She peels off the real yet heart-wrenching truth at the other end of the phone. They appear before you, carrying some pain, some humiliation, some self-pity, some unrestrainedness or dark humor. They are a group of women like the Sirens in Greek mythology, selling their sweet and charming voices day and night to survive and settle in the bustling metropolis, even at the cost of their bodies. In the end, besides being physically and mentally exhausted and scarred, they fall into being despised and abandoned by the whole society as "poppies." This book reveals the wounds behind the truth and delicately portrays the distortion and alienation, as well as the dreams and sorrows of this special group of "voice service operators" in the face of the law of survival.