I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

by Hu AnYan Translated by Jack Hargreaves

English translation 2025 · debut

Reception

Mostly positive. 5 of 6 critics were positive or better.

Rave 0 · Positive 5 · Mixed 1 · Pan 0

“Galvanizing … Reminds us that for all the innovations of technology, much of the world still runs on old-fashioned muscle”

New York Review of Books · Rumaan Alam · Positive

2 more quotes

“Although this book is full of illuminating and often startling detail, it is written in flat, one-note prose that I found uninviting.”

The Guardian (UK) · Mixed
“In place of a conventional narrative, it stalls, circles and meanders … It lacks even the basic and orienting comforts of linear structure”

The Washington Post · Becca Rothfeld · Positive

Allen Lane, 2025

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Publisher: Allen Lane, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-241-73382-0
Editions: Allen Lane, 2025, hardcover 978-0-241-73382-0
Astra Publishing House, 2025, 256 pages 978-1-6626-0304-4
Author: Hu, AnYan
Statement: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing / Hu AnYan ; translated by Jack Hargreaves.
Records: Open Library

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026