Ebook {Epub PDF} The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi

This thesis explores the life and writings of Wang Anyi, focusing on her major work, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, which won the author the prestigious Mao Dun literary award in China. The novel is an attempt by the author to capture the spirit of the city of . Wang Anyi attempts to encapsulate the essence of her metropolis amid decades of twentieth-century vicissitudes. The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai is unquestionably the most acclaimed novel by one of China's most well-known authors. Michael Berry's translation is executed with care and is true to the original style/5(22). Wang Anyi. Song of. verlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai. Trs. Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. ISBN: (paper); ISBN: (cloth). Wang Anyi is widely considered to occupy a prominent position among contemporary Chinese bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins.

Wang Anyi's city is Shanghai, to which she was permitted to return in As with music, that unique city informs all her work. Her most famous novel is The Song of Everlasting Sorrow ( Anyi Wang not only describes the physical atmosphere so well you can vividly visualize it, but she evokes the emotion of the city. You can FEEL Shanghai - the activity, the secret lives, the energy. There were times I stopped reading so as to fully formulate the images she was painting in my mind's eye, not just the physical but the emotional. Wang Anyi The Song of Everlasting Sorrow. Wang Qiyao was a girl born of the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of working-class Shanghai. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of s Hollywood, Wang.

Get Books. The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the. This thesis explores the life and writings of Wang Anyi, focusing on her major work, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, which won the author the prestigious Mao Dun literary award in China. The novel is an attempt by the author to capture the spirit of the city of Shanghai over a span of more than four decades. Wang Anyi. Song of. verlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai. Trs. Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. ISBN: (paper); ISBN: (cloth). Wang Anyi is widely considered to occupy a prominent position among contemporary Chinese writers.