Cunning and Calculating (Best Foreign Novel of the 21st Century·2002)

Author: Anne Proulx
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The Tipping Point is a long novel published by the renowned contemporary American female writer Anne Proulx at the end of 2002. This new work by the Pulitzer Prize winner depicts the experience of an employee who uses deceptive means to select pig farm locations for Global Porkskin Company. It integrates humor and exaggeration, regional history and current reality, landscape descriptions and character portrayals, weaving together the customs, legends, and many eccentric characters of the remote grasslands on the border of Texas and Oklahoma, opening up new areas for literary creation. The novel highlights the tension between capital expansion and the ecological environment, and offers new reflections on people's lifestyles, moral choices, and the meaning of life. The Tipping Point was selected as the American literary work for the year 2002 in the Annual Best Foreign Novel of the 21st Century award. The book features Bob Doyle, the pig farm location officer of Global Porkskin Company, as the protagonist, with his travel experience for location selection as the main plotline, connecting the unique customs, cowboy legends, and stories of Native Americans in the northern grasslands of Texas, showcasing the beautiful yet fierce natural scenery of the Long region, windmills, pastures, dust, and stormy weather. To protect this homeland, the people of the Long region, led by Old Ace, engage in uncompromising resistance against the encroachment of external powerful forces.