Winner

Author: Ding Li
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: With the same Gaokao scores, they faced completely different fates. On this new competitive field, who is the true winner? Ding Li's novel vividly portrays the fantastical and bizarre tapestry of contemporary urban society. What's precious is that he maintains an equal and deep humanistic concern for the diverse business figures in his stories—writer Mo Yan finds his work appealing, entertaining, and dramatic! Ding Li's depiction of the myriad characters in his stories is the reality we encounter every day. —Poet and playwright Zou Jingzhi Only those who have been in business can portray entrepreneurs so convincingly, including their inner world, business practices, and profit models. Opening the pages of Ding Li's novel, the atmosphere of the market and life wafts in. The protagonists in his stories are also ordinary people around us—intelligent yet foolish, great yet ordinary, with both noble virtues and severe flaws. In my reading experience, he is a writer who truly captures the essence of the business world. —Tian Jie, Chairman of Beijing Laojia Roubing Fast Food Chain The same Gaokao scores, yet rural student Ma Jinshui could only return to farming, while urban students Zeng Weili and Shi Jiannan were admitted to university smoothly. The three met in Shenzhen: Shi Jiannan, from an official family background and transferred later, became a boss; Zeng Weili, a city dweller, flew south and became a professional manager; while Ma Jinshui could only be a migrant worker. During a company layoff, Ma Jinshui suffers from uremia and is on the brink of death. As a professional manager, Zeng Weili, though obedient to his boss, hesitates over the layoff issue—if Ma Jinshui keeps his job, he can continue enjoying the company's social security benefits, otherwise he faces a dead end. Centered around Ma Jinshui's life and death, the angels and devils within human nature perform a dazzling dance.