Beschreibung:
Wang Anyi began her career as a writer in 1978. Her books in English include Lapse of Time, Love in a Small Town, Love on a Barren Mountain, Brocade Valley, Baotown, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year award, and Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Columbia, 2008).
One of contemporary China's most acclaimed authors explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban life, providing a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People's Republic of China.