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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai | Wang Anyi
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. After the Communist victory, Wang Qiyao continues to indulge in the decadent pleasures of the Shanghai bourgeoisie, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist campaign and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. She reemerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of "old Shanghai," only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the Hollywood noirs of her youth.
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Tricky question @britt_brooke 🧐
Here‘s my five

Ursula K Le Guin
Wang Anyi
Joe Hill
Octavia Butler
Keigo Higashino

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Whee!!! My #recommendsday pick is up over @Litsy ! Go see what I had to say about this beautiful book! 😊 (thanks @Liberty !!)

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It's #Recommendsday! What are you recommending? "This is the story of "Miss Third Place", Wang Qiyao, who doesn't win the Miss Shanghai beauty contest, but whose little brush with fame changes her life. I was drawn to her melancholic story, to Wang Anyi‘s intricate depiction of Shanghai from postwar 1940s to the 1980s. It‘s an enduring, elegant, beautiful novel from one of China's best-known writers." - @RealLifeReading

LeahBergen Beautiful photo! 💗 8y
TheUnpopularReader Such a beautiful floral print! I am loving it❤️ 8y
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