DNF @ 18%. I really wanted to like this, especially as I've been reading (and enjoying) a lot of Honk Kong and Chinese fiction recently thanks to the latest issue of Granta. 

Maybe this was a translation issue but I found this hard to follow and couldn't really figure out who anybody was or what was going on. The POV jumps around a lot, sometimes mid-paragraph, and nearly a fifth of the way into the book I just didn't know why I was meant to care or what I was meant to care about.

The opening chapter was really strong and made me excited to read more but that faded quickly and it couldn't hold my attention.