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Shanghai Baby
Author(s): WEI HUI (Author)
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date: 28 Aug. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 263 pages
- ISBN-10: 0743421566
- ISBN-13: 9780743421560
Book Description
Coco, a twenty-five-year-old Shanghai waitress living with a handsome but impotent and drug-addicted Chinese artist, becomes embroiled in a passionate love affair with a married German, in a graphic, semi-autobiographical novel.
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About the Author
Wei Hui, daughter of a Chinese army officer, studied literature at Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University. She is the author of The Shriek of the Butterfly, Virgin in the Water, Crazy Like Wei Hui, and Desire Pistol. Shanghai Baby is her first full-length novel, as well as her first writing to be published in English. She lives in Shanghai.
