Banned and burned in China, this incendiary novel about a taboo-busting young woman in contemporary Shanghai has become a worldwide phenomenon.
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Banned and burned in China, this incendiary novel about a taboo-busting young woman in contemporary Shanghai has become a worldwide phenomenon.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. A nice hardcover with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.
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Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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New York. 2001. September 2001. Pocket Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743421566. Translated from the Chinese by Bruce Humes. 263 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Lisa Litwack. keywords: Literature China Shanghai Women Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Although it caused an uproar in the author's native China, Western readers will find 27-year-old Wei Hui's semiautobiographical offering reminiscent of fiction by the brat pack writers of the ‘80s, though more clich? d and less edgy. Waitress Nikki ‘but my friends call me Coco after Coco Chanel' is in love with Tian Tian, a melancholy and impotent artist who falls prey to narcotics. Coco loves him madly, but not so madly that she wants to give up sex, and this is why she's also been seeing Mark, a married German businessman. Coco's deceptions, Tian Tian's problems with his wealthy mother (who he suspects killed his father) and the intertwining worlds of art and fashion are all fodder for Coco's upcoming slice-of-lifestyle novel, in which Shanghai's privileged 20-somethings are shown in their natural habitat of clubs and coffeehouses. Beneath the techno beat, though, the sore subject of Western imperialism its avatars, this time, multinational managers still lurks. Among Coco's friends, one known as Madonna stands out in particular: she earned a fortune first as a madam and then as the widow of a rich man. Wei Hui evidently wants to imitate her heroes, the beats and Henry Miller, and relishes observations like our bodies were already tarnished, and our minds beyond help. But she spends more time analyzing people by the brands they use and the cars they drive, thus giving the book an odd air of beat fluff, as if Jack Kerouac had mated with Judith Krantz. The book is as alluring as a gossip column, but, alas, as shallow as one, too. Forty thousand copies of SHANGHAI BABY were burned by the Chinese government. Proving censors make the best publicists, rights were subsequently sold in 19 countries 200, 000 copies are in print in Japan alone. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. inventory #30999.
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Very Good + in Very Good +, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book Complete number line from 1 to 10; translated from the Chinese by Bruce Humes; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. white out inside front cover-otherwise fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Audience: General/trade.
