Tash Aw
Five star billionaire
Unabridged
15 hours 42 minutes
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Sensacionnyy roman nominanta Bukerovskoy premii o yarkom, no zhestokom mire megapolisa. Pyat' geroev pribyvayut v Shanhay iz Malayzii: u kogo-to iz nih za plechami bogatoe nasledstvo, a kto-to naoborot — vyrvalsya iz glubokoy nishchety bez grosha v karmane. Etih sovershenno raznyh lyudey ob'edinyaet odna tol'ko cel': realizovat' svoyu zavetnuyu mechtu i pokorit' etot «Vostochnyy Parizh». Fibi — trudolyubivaya devushka iz provincii, priekhavshaya v Shanhay nayti hot' kakuyu-to rabotu, no v dushe mechtayushchaya poymat' zhuravlya v nebe. Gari — derevenskiy paren', stavshiy pop-zvezdoy, no tak i ne privyknuvshiy k golovokruzhitel'noy zhizni v siyanii sofitov. Dzhastin — naslednik bogatoy malayziyskoy sem'i, pribyvshiy v SHanhay, chtoby rasshirit' semeynyy biznes, no stolknuvshiysya s nepreodolimymi trudnostyami. Inhoy — romantichnaya baryshnya, stavshaya uspeshnoy biznes ledi v etom muzhskom mire korporativnyh akul. I Uolter Chao, tot samyy zagadochnyy pyatizvezdochnyy milliarder, kak-to svyazannyy s sud'boy kazhdogo iz geroev i deystvuyushchiy soglasno svoemu, tol'ko emu izvestnomu planu. Megapolis prorochit zaoblachnye vysoty tem, kto gotov postavit' na kon vse, no v bitve za mesto pod solncem net pravil i net sudey, lish' besposhchadnaya real'nost'. Kakuyu cenu ty gotov zaplatit' za uspekh? Kak nayti sredi morya fal'shivyh ulybok hot' odnu nastoyashchuyu? I kak spravit'sya s gnetushchim odinochestvom — glavnoy bolezn'yu zhitelya bol'shogo goroda?
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