Wasted years

Author: Ye Xin
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This is Ye Xin's 24th long, with a gap of nine years since his previous work. It is another profound work that reflects the multi-layered and colorful lives of modern and contemporary Chinese people, following influential works such as Huadu and Niedai. This is the author's new creation that comprehensively depicts the metropolis of Shanghai. In this novel, which he poured years of effort into, the lives of ordinary people in 20th-century China, the nobility and baseness of human nature, the high and low of character, the purity, subtlety, and complexity of sexual psychology—all are vividly portrayed under the clash of civilization and barbarism, 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's longing 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 advancement of historical progress.