Song of Regret

Song of Regret is about affection and love of a woman for 40 years, which are described with an exquisite and gorgeous technique to be sad and moving.

Here is a great change to the large city Shanghai from the 1940s to the 1990s.

Women living in the narrow alleyways of this city accumulate countless ideals, disillusion, restlessness and resentment.

Their pursuit of affection and love, and their success and failure are unfolded one by one before us.

Using a seemingly flat, humorous and cold style, Wang Anyi shows people and the city in the change of time through delightful talk about trivial life details.

This work is hailed as "e;epic of modern Shanghai"e;.