books by Wang Anyi (translated renditions shanghai)

books by Wang Anyi

books:

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Wang Anyi

Foreign Language Press, 2005

Life in China
A collection of well written stories telling about everyday life in China in the 1980s. The people described are touching, you wish to know more about them and how they cope with their lives. The book gives you a view of Chinese culture and way of thinking and it serves as a good introduction to contemporary Chinese literature.

Love on a Barren Mountain (Renditions Paperbacks)
Wang Anyi

Small Pr Distribution, 1991

This novel is based on real events the author observed during the Cultural Revolution and her days of manual labor in the countryside. Wang takes the basic facts of this tragic tale of extra-marital love and develops them into a tale of universal power. With her rare insight and great descriptive powers, she reveals the way in which a restrictive society, the power of love can turn destructive.

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan: A Novel of Shanghai ...

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Wang Anyi

Columbia University Press, 2008

Met my expectations!
The novel arrived quickly and was at a fair price and met my expectations. -- norman Michaud

Love in Small Town (Renditions paperbacks)

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Anyi Wang, Eva Hung

Small Pr Distribution, 1988

A magnificent work of feeling and sensibility
This work in its Chinese original is a milestone of contemporary Chinese fiction. It uses the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution to explore timeless human emotions and sexuality. The author Wang Anyi is of the same generation and similar in style to another great Chinese woman writer, Yan Geling, whose "White Snake and Other Stories" have just appeared in English and whose film "Xiu Xiu: ...