Murong Xuecun was born in 1974. He worked as a lawyer, and senior sales manager for a car company, and started to write fiction in 2001. In 2002 when his first novel took China by storm, Murong gave up his job, and devoted himself to writing full time. Leave Me Alone, Chengdu is a tragi-comic take on love and life in modern China. Three young men, Chen Zhong, Li Liang and Big Head Wang struggle to make their way in Chengdu, China’s fifth most populous city. Despite their money-making aspirations, the trio’s lives are beset by dead-end jobs, gambling debts, drinking, drugs, and whoring. Complicated relationships with women, whether pregnant mistresses, angry wives or passive lovers compound their misery. Read excerpt of Leave Me Alone, Chengdu Contact author at: benython@zeitgeistmediagroup.com