by Wei Hui · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467408706
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«Shanghai Baby» is the semi-autobiographical novel by Wei Hui, published by Planeta DeAgostini in paperback, in Spanish.
Shanghai Baby tells the story of Coco, a young waitress and aspiring writer in Shanghai, torn between Tian Tian, a sensitive boy with addiction problems, and Mark, a married man from the West. Between affection and desire, the novel portrays the sexual and emotional awakening of a generation in a China beginning to open up.
Edition published in 2004 in the collection Los grandes autores de la Narrativa Actual. Work translated from Chinese.
A read for those seeking contemporary Chinese fiction and stories about desire, identity, and social change.
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".
