Diane Johnson, "Rolex", The Missouri Review 2000

A cheap fake watch left in a Beijing hotel room is mistaken for real.

By Diane Johnson
© copyright The Missouri Review 2000
Read by June Spence
Length: 45 minutes

Play ROLEX by Diane Johnson

Salon's 1997 Wanderlust column author Dwight Garner writes in a review of Diane Johnson's book Natural Opium:

in "Rolex," Johnson discovers that a cheap fake watch she'd left (and forgotten about) in a Beijing hotel was mistaken for the genuine article, and the saga of its delivery back to her changed the lives of several of the Chinese men and women involved. It's a small story, but Johnson is alert to the emotional reverberations it casts.

"Rolex" is one of the readings in the MIT OpenCourseWare course on Consumer Culture, Fall 2002.

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