If you're the sort of person who's going to like Brothers, you'll know it by the 11th of its 641 pages. Having introduced the novel's tycoon hero, "Baldy Li", fantasising about space travel on a gold-plated toilet, the first chapter cuts back to his first notable achievement: spying on women who are defecating into a maggot-filled pit latrine. Gilded lavatories and cloacal voyeurism might be your thing; if they're not, then read no more, because things are only going to get worse.

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