Shanghai Baby

by Wei Hui | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 0743421574 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Akiree of Orlando, Florida USA on 5/3/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by Akiree from Orlando, Florida USA on Monday, May 3, 2004
From back -
The story of a young urban woman who waits tables by day and explores Shanghai's intoxicating underbelly by night. While trying desperately to write a novel so that she might "burst upon the city like fireworks" Coco falls in love with an impotent and drug addicted Chinese artist, but also begins an affair with a rich, married Western businessman with a penchant for seduction.
A no-surprise plot involving largely depressed or depressing characters, with all the usual trappings of troubled teenage love, I was nonetheless drawn in by Hui's beautiful writing style. A creative and poetic voice.

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