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五湖四海
「這是個群雄競起的時代，機會和陷阱一樣多，要步步留心！」
王安憶直入商場波濤，捲起五湖四海千堆雪，
以宏偉壯闊又細膩深情的筆觸，刻畫時代變革，
掀起人性內裡、家族親緣的萬般掙扎！
◎ 王德威專文作序；當代華文重要小說家——王安憶最新大時代創作。
◎ 自五Ｏ年代後中國改革開放、新舊秩序輪轉的歷史軌跡，書寫一對恩愛夫妻綿延數十年、如何翻轉人生的跌宕奮鬥史。
「一九五○年代末一對水上兒女因緣際會，參與了時代的裂變。
修國妹與張建設從邂逅到日後的發展，一切的歡樂與憂傷，不正是歷史與命運的碰撞結果？
王安憶藉著兩人的冒險，寫出一個時代的變遷，又何嘗沒有回首自身來時之路的感喟？
小說結局如此迅猛，傳遞王安憶直面現實混沌或真相的訊號：
革命了，改革了，開放了，上岸了，下海了⋯⋯我們都來自五湖四海，再回首卻已百年身。」
——王德威（哈佛大學中文與比較文學教授）
【內容簡介】
浪潮中的漂泊拚鬥，不外乎爭河道、爭先後、爭順逆風⋯⋯
他們卻謹守一個「讓」字，深知舊生計將被新的代替，
眼光必須比時代巨輪駛得更長遠，
王安憶直入商場波濤，捲起五湖四海千堆雪，
以宏偉壯闊又細膩深情的筆觸，刻畫時代變革，
掀起人性內裡、家族親緣的萬般掙扎！
◎ 王德威專文作序；當代華文重要小說家——王安憶最新大時代創作。
◎ 自五Ｏ年代後中國改革開放、新舊秩序輪轉的歷史軌跡，書寫一對恩愛夫妻綿延數十年、如何翻轉人生的跌宕奮鬥史。
「一九五○年代末一對水上兒女因緣際會，參與了時代的裂變。
修國妹與張建設從邂逅到日後的發展，一切的歡樂與憂傷，不正是歷史與命運的碰撞結果？
王安憶藉著兩人的冒險，寫出一個時代的變遷，又何嘗沒有回首自身來時之路的感喟？
小說結局如此迅猛，傳遞王安憶直面現實混沌或真相的訊號：
革命了，改革了，開放了，上岸了，下海了⋯⋯我們都來自五湖四海，再回首卻已百年身。」
——王德威（哈佛大學中文與比較文學教授）
【內容簡介】
浪潮中的漂泊拚鬥，不外乎爭河道、爭先後、爭順逆風⋯⋯
他們卻謹守一個「讓」字，深知舊生計將被新的代替，
眼光必須比時代巨輪駛得更長遠，
121 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 28, 2023
About the author
Wang Anyi
87 books56 followersWang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan(茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road." As a result of the Cultural Revolution, she was not permitted to continue her education beyond the junior high school level. Instead, at age fifteen, she was assigned as a farm labourer to a commune in Anhui, an impoverished area near the Huai River, which was plagued by famine.
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
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