丹心

Ren, a former graduate student of architecture, goes ahead to Ningbo in China to prepare his teacher Kanogawa's dream commission: turning a lanweilou, a tower block abandoned half-built, into a museum. Working alongside Ms Q, a striking woman at a Hong Kong developer, her father Mr Q, a Party cadre, and a chauffeur from the countryside, Ren has to persuade the residents who have occupied the building to move out, with three gangsters hired by Ms Q on hand to lean on them. The ambitions of the heiress and of those who bought flats in the unfinished building collide. The story is set in an alternative present after a second Tokyo Olympics. The book also includes the author's earlier novella about a resort plan on Amami.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

181 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2026 by Shinchosha

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9784103571414 (original)