I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

Resumen del libro

A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial Times

Hu Anyan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated. He's been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a security guard and a delivery driver (among many other things). Every time the work gets punishing or the bosses too bossy, he moves on, from city to city, carrying with him nothing but his copies of Chekhov and Carver. This is his story.

A runaway bestseller in China, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is about what it's like to try and make a living and stay sane in the gig economy. From the pecking order on a parcel-sorting factory floor to the perfect alcohol dose to get some daylight shut-eye before a punishing night shift, from the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the hiring departments to the ideal layout of a delivery route, Hu illuminates the hidden lives behind the roles that keep our world going. But he also shows how, through the liberating power of literature, he finds solace, and even freedom in his existence. Quietly radical, brimming with humanity and humour, this book asks: what does work really mean? What should it mean? And do any of us really know how to live?

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Hu Anyanx{0026}lt;/B (Cantón, China, 1979) es un escritor chino que comenzó su vida profesional desempeñando diversos trabajos tras finalizar la educación secundaria. Durante años se trasladó entre distintas ciudades en busca de sustento, hasta que en 2020 un texto suyo x{0026} x02014;basado en su experiencia como repartidor en Pekínx{0026} x02014; se hizo viral y lo dio a conocer en todo el país. A partir de ese relato nació su primer libro, x{0026}lt;I El repartidor de Pequínx{0026}lt;/I , un testimonio sincero y humano sobre la vida urbana contemporánea que se convirtió en un gran éxito de ventas en China. La obra será traducida a quince idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P