Spent Years (Representative Works of Famous Contemporary Chinese Novelists)

Author: Ye Xin
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Representative works of contemporary Chinese famous writers. Ye Xin was born in Shanghai in 1949. He went to Guizhou for the Down-to-the-Countryside Movement. Currently serves as Vice President of the Chinese Writers' Association, Vice President of the Shanghai Writers' Association, Vice President of the Shanghai Literature and Art Federation, and Dean of the School of Literature at Shanghai University. He began publishing works in 1977 and has written novels such as Lost Years, Debt of Love, Family Education, The Terrifying Typhoon, Three Years, Five Years, and Huadu. This book is Ye Xin's 24th novel and was published nine years after his previous work. It is another profound and multi-layered portrayal of modern and contemporary Chinese life, following influential works such as Huadu and Debt of Love. This is the author's new work that comprehensively depicts the metropolis of Shanghai. In this novel, which he poured years of effort into creating, the lives of ordinary people in 20th-century China, the nobility and baseness of human nature, the high and low of character, and the purity, subtlety, and complexity of sexual psychology are all vividly revealed under the clash of civilization and savagery, in the struggle for human words and rights, and in the temptation of lust and the entanglement of love. The novel delicately and deeply portrays the female characters' yearning for love amidst sudden changes in fate, the desperate desire and helplessness of women trapped at the bottom, and the aspirations and yearnings of outstanding urban women for love, reflecting the diverse destinies of women in the relentless progress of history.