In contemporary Shanghai, architectural styles all coincide - the crassest postmodern revivalism and the purest ascetic modernism.
Nor would I give it a pretentious postmodern title.
Kjaerstad is the author of a celebrated postmodern trilogy that focuses on the sprawling life of a television presenter who is charged with murdering his wife.
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisisted: but with irony, not innocently.
Yet this is not a postmodern "non-mystery" mystery, and the case rolls on with a life of its own to a most satisfying conclusion.