Five Star Billionaire: A Novel

"Five people make the journey from Malaysia to Shanghai. One is a rising pop star; another, a businesswoman with a surprising past. There’s the country girl determined to make good in the city, and the wealthy boy trying to discard a family legacy. They all sound like archetypes you’ve met before, but the subject of this wonderful novel isn’t really any of them — it’s the booming city of Shanghai, and the questions it poses to those who move there: In a city of more than 20 million, what do you have to do to stand out, and in the end, do you really want to?"