by Wei Hui · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788408077626
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«Shanghai Baby» is the contemporary novel by Wei Hui, published by Booket in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Coco, a young Chinese woman living with a very sensitive man whose impotence prevents him from satisfying her. When she meets Mark, a married German, she begins an affair based on sexual attraction. The work confronts taboos of Chinese society and the cultural tensions of contemporary China.
It is volume 1 of Booket's Bestseller collection and was published in Barcelona in May 2003.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in narratives addressing taboos, desire, and female identity in today's China.
Zhou Wei Hui, known simply by her Chinese given name Wei Hui, is a Chinese novelist, living and working in Shanghai and New York City. Her novel Shanghai Baby (上海宝贝) (1999) was banned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying Buddha (我的禅) (2005) was censored, modified and published in China under a modified title. She is often associated with Mian Mian, another slightly older member of the "New Generation".
