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本书的主人公是上海家喻户晓的名演员于堇，舞台上她是美艳绝伦的名演员，舞台下她是西方情报机构的谍报人员。她时隔三年从香港回到上海，表面上是为了出演上海著名左翼导演谭呐的新戏《狐步上海》，也有人觉得她是为了营救自己被抓入76号的前夫倪则仁，甚至称她为“孟姜女”，但事实上她是为了得到日军偷袭美国珍珠港军舰的准确时间和地点，才被自己的养父兼上级休伯特召回上海进行谍报任务。在这座上海“孤岛”，山雨欲来，于堇在巨大压力之下，一边当好演员，一边与各方势力周旋，最终完成了任务，也做出了自己的选择。
270 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2021
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About the author
Hong Ying
101 books56 followersHong Ying was born in Chongqing in 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories. After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she as writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty- nineteen languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries, she won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993-1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.
Chinese Profile: 虹影
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty- nineteen languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries, she won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993-1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.
Chinese Profile: 虹影
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