In English
Mao Dun 2000 · Winner
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
长恨歌 · Changhen ge
Wang Anyi · 42 when first published
Novel · 456 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In the 1940s Wang Qiyao, a schoolgirl from a Shanghai lane house, is chosen as a Miss Shanghai and becomes the kept mistress of a powerful official. After 1949 she lives on as an ordinary city dweller, while her heart is never at rest.