Person in a Bottle
A Novel by Sun Wei
About the Novel
“Find a Husband before the Killer Finds You”, with the original title “Person in a Bottle”, is a whodunit set in Shanghai, a city filled with lonely people, many with hidden lives. A city pharmaceutical company has spent billions to develop a new antidepressant, but in Stage 3 trials, a patient dies, making headlines and threatening profits. Fourteen other deaths are uncovered, many linked by strange internet posts. Many successful, powerful and glamorous men and women are revealed to suffer ailments such as schizophrenia, depression, drug abuse and Internet addiction. This novel has won the Excellence Award of Chinese Writers’ Erdos National Literature Award.
The novel has 17 chapters in all.
