内容简介
ANewYorkReviewBooksOriginal“[A]giantofmodernChineseliterature”–TheNewYorkTimes"Withlanguageassharpasaknifeedge,EileenChangcutopenahugedivideinChineseculture,betweentheclassicalpatriarchyandourtroubledmode
作者简介
EileenChangisoneofthegreatwritersoftwentieth-centuryChina,wheresheenjoysapassionatefollowingbothonthemainlandandinTaiwan.AttheheartofChang'sachievementishershortfiction—talesoflove,longing,andtheshiftingandendlesslytreacherousshoalsoffamilylife.Writtenwhenshewasstillinhertwenties,theseextraordinarystoriescombineanunsettled,probing,utterlycontemporarysensibility,keenlyalerttosexualpoliticsandpsychologicalambiguity,withanintenselyricismthatechoestheclassicsofChineseliterature.