The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Hardcover)

Wang Ayi`s beautiful and melancholy novel follows Wang Qiyao, a Chinese beauty queen in Shanghai in the 1940s, through the famines and political upheavals of the cultural revolution and into the equally shocking freedoms of the late 20th century. Though politics clearly plays a major role in the characters lives, the novel`s focus is on subtle and fundamentally unchanging personalities of Wang and her lovers, and their bittersweet and thwarted desires. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.