During the Golden week of 2008, Mei Xiaoou met a big client at Macau Airport: the charming real estate tycoon Duan Kaiwen. She took him to the VIP lounge of an exuberant casino, and kicks off the gamble of a lifetime. While the game is still proceeding, Mei Xiaoou got news that one of her former clients, who lost everything and has been banned from the casino, the wooden sculpture artist Shi Qilan, appeared mysteriously in Macau. Mei Xiaoou fell into a whirlpool of complicated feelings and tactics between herself and those two men. Game after game, continuously putting her life on the line, the debt and the chase, this is a cat and mouse’s game of intelligence, it’s also a competition of their humanity...just as Mei Xiaoou ran out of energy and is about to fell down, her first lover, the father of her son who she broke up with due to his addiction to gambling, former National Department of Science official Lu Jintong showed up with terminal illness and fights the single mother for her only son in the name of imminent death... 

A City Called Macau is a story of modern gambling and gamblers, which gave fresh characters to the global world of literature. The film right to A City Called Macau has already been sold. 

作者简介：

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Geling Yan is an award-winning Chinese novelist and screenwriter. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution, starting aged 12 as a dancer in an entertainment troupe. She published her first novel in 1985. Since then she has written numerous short stories, essays, scripts and novels. Geling Yan's works have been translated into over a dozen languages, and several have been adapted for the screen, the latest being The Flowers of War. Geling Yan holds a Master's in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. She currently divides her time between China and Berlin.