by Wei Hui · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422696957
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«Shanghai Baby» is the contemporary novel by Wei Hui published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (286 pages, in Spanish).
Cocó, a young Chinese woman who aspires to be a writer, grew up between family traditions and Western references. She is torn between Tiantian, her boyfriend of fragile sensitivity, and Mark, a married German with whom she lives a relationship marked by desire. The novel portrays contemporary Shanghai and the distance between love and desire.
The work was originally published in 1999 under the title Shanghai baobei; this Spanish edition is from 2002.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in urban China, romantic conflicts and a female protagonist.
Zhou Wei Hui, known simply by her Chinese given name Wei Hui, is a Chinese novelist, living and working in Shanghai and New York City. Her novel Shanghai Baby (上海宝贝) (1999) was banned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying Buddha (我的禅) (2005) was censored, modified and published in China under a modified title. She is often associated with Mian Mian, another slightly older member of the "New Generation".
