Marrying Buddha

Marrying Buddha is the second novel by Chinese author Wei Hui and is a sequel to her first published novel, Shanghai Baby. Set four years on from the events of Shanghai Baby, Marrying Buddha continues the story of Coco, a writer from Shanghai, now aged 29. The plot intersperses Coco's adventures in New York,and later in Madrid, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, with her journey in China from Shanghai to the Buddhist monastery on Mount Putuo, (Putuoshan... more

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Wei Hui

Zhou Weihui (simplified Chinese: 周卫慧; traditional Chinese: 周衛慧; pinyin: Zhōu Wèihuì, (born Ningbo, 1973) is a Chinese writer, living and working in Shanghai and New York. Her novel Shanghai Baby (上海宝贝) (2000) was banned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying...

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