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他是上海退休职员 ，受聘在一家私人企业工作。
一次偶然事故，阴错阳差，他被绑匪带走。绑匪为了消灭踪迹，将他弃于山坳。这个山坳在七十年中曾因地理位置成为民间的一个集贸地，后来经济开放，村民逐渐走出山坳，村庄荒落。他一人在此地挣扎生活，度过了一秋一冬。春天时，他不慎酿成山火，出逃后遇救，被送往山镇养老院，不期然遇到当时的绑匪；又寻机去往县城福利院，辗转找到上海家人。但在即将回家时，他坠入江中，顺江河流向大海。
此一遭际中，有无数的人和事进入他的生活。而他因应激反应失去了记忆，像一个初生的孩子一样，重新认识了世界和人生，将原始文明重新经历了一遍，最后成为一个新人，汇入了永恒的时间。
一次偶然事故，阴错阳差，他被绑匪带走。绑匪为了消灭踪迹，将他弃于山坳。这个山坳在七十年中曾因地理位置成为民间的一个集贸地，后来经济开放，村民逐渐走出山坳，村庄荒落。他一人在此地挣扎生活，度过了一秋一冬。春天时，他不慎酿成山火，出逃后遇救，被送往山镇养老院，不期然遇到当时的绑匪；又寻机去往县城福利院，辗转找到上海家人。但在即将回家时，他坠入江中，顺江河流向大海。
此一遭际中，有无数的人和事进入他的生活。而他因应激反应失去了记忆，像一个初生的孩子一样，重新认识了世界和人生，将原始文明重新经历了一遍，最后成为一个新人，汇入了永恒的时间。
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450 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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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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