I quit trusting anything that anyone told me. My life was skidding into darkness at high speed, and I couldn't stop it. I didn't think that there was a man anywhere in the world who could love me. I was 22 years old and dead on the vine. I want to see a thousand lonely strangers dancing happily at my party. An international literary phenomenon—now available for the first time in English translation—Candy is a blast of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that opens up to us a modern China we've never seen before.
Author
Mian is a young Chinese writer. She writes on China's once-taboo topics and she is a promoter of Shanghai's local music. Her publications have earned her the reputation as China's literary wild child. Her first novel, Candy, has been translated into English. Her other novels include Every good child deserves to eat candy. Her novel We Are Panic was made into a movie, Shanghai Panic, in which she also acted one of the lead roles. In late 2009, she sued Google over the company scanning her books for its online library. She demanded ¥61,000 and a public apology. Google removed the book from its library.
