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Celebrated for his darkly funny tales of contemporary Chinese urban life, New York Times columnist Murong has emerged as one of China’s leading dissidents, with a series of brave speeches calling for freedom of expression. Murong was twenty eight and working as a sales manager in the car industry when he started posting his first novel Leave Me Alone on the internet. In 2002 it became a cult hit among young middle class Chinese looking for writing that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable literature. Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu is an unflinching, darkly funny take on love and life in modern China. It’s the story of three young men, Chen Zhong, Li Liang and Big Head Wang and their tragi-comic struggles to make their way in Chengdu, China’s fifth most populous city. Despite their aspirations in the newly capitalist China, the trio’s lives are beset by dead-end jobs, gambling debts, drinking, drugs, and whoring. Chen Zhong is married to Zhao Yue. Although he loves her, he plays around with other women. But it isn’t until Chen Zhong discovers that Zhao Yue is having an affair that he realizes exactly how much he stands to lose…