{"product_id":"i-deliver-parcels-in-beijing-9780241733820","title":"I Deliver Parcels in Beijing : On Making a Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the twenty years following Hu Anyan’s high school graduation, he has held nineteen different jobs. He’s been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a security guard and a delivery driver, among other things. He’s moved from city to city in China, moving away every time the work gets too intense or the bosses too bossy, making a home in rented rooms and carrying almost nothing with him except his copies of Chekhov and Carver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Deliver Parcels in Beijing is his account of his life as a low-wage worker in the anonymous mega-cities of modern China. From the psychology of the pecking order on a parcel-sorting factory floor to the perfect alcohol dose to get some daylight shut-eye before a punishing night shift, from the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the hiring departments to the ideal layout of a delivery route, Hu’s sincere curiosity and deadpan humour highlight the human story behind the drudgery. Harnessing his love of literature, Hu begins to discover a new, freeing way of looking at and recording his world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Hu Anyan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eChina, Memoirs, Literary essays\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 28 Oct 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hu Anyan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320634646906,"sku":"9780241733820","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780241733820.jpg?v=1790659918","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/i-deliver-parcels-in-beijing-9780241733820","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}