THE BOOK OF SHANGHAI: A CITY IN SHORT FICTION

The latest addition to the Comma Press’s award winning “Reading the City” series, The Book of Shanghai presents short stories from 10 contemporary Shanghai writers from Wang Anyi, a well-established author born in the 1950s, to Wang Zhanhei, a rising literary star born in the 90s. Ranging in genre from urban fiction to sci-fi to whodunits, each story is set in China’s biggest city. Together, they paint a multi-dimensional picture of Shanghai, its people, and its unique past and present.