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The
2003 Award
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Shanghai Baby by
Wei Hui
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Pocket Books ISBN 0743421566 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Shanghai Baby is the story of a young, urban woman, Coco, 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 a wistful affair with a rich, married Western businessman with a penchant for seduction. Shanghai Baby is a provocative portrayal of men and women in cultural transition and depicts the unacknowledged new China. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Wei Hui studied literature at Shanghai's Fudan University. She is the author of Shriek of the Butterfly, Virgin in the Water, Crazy Like Wei Hui, and Desire Pistol. Shanghai Baby is her first novel. She lives in Shanghai. |
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