繁花

Two stories run side by side through this portrait of Shanghai. One follows a group of boys growing up from the 1960s to the last days of the Cultural Revolution; the other picks up their adult lives from the 1980s into the new century, a world of banquets, deals and affairs. Abao, Husheng, Xiaomao and Taotao recur throughout, among a crowd of women such as Beidi, Shuhua, Meirui and Li Li. It opens in the 1990s with Husheng stopped at a market by Taotao, now a crab seller, and their idle chat about wives, customers and old flames. Written largely in Shanghai speech, the novel never enters its characters' minds: they talk, they act, and again and again they say nothing.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

China, 1960s–2000s

First published

2013 by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

Author's age

61 when first published

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