This realistic novel vividly unfolds a series of stories set in Shanghai's Pudong district from the 1970s to the late 1980s. Set in the old Pudong district, it depicts a cast of everyday characters, including Qiao Qiao, Wei Wei, and Dao Meixiang, depicting their intertwined lives of love and hate, their tangled thoughts and souls. This is an encyclopedic ensemble novel. Set in Liuli Town, the story sees the daily lives of ordinary people radically disrupted by the passage of history and time. The author meticulously recreates the customs and people of old Pudong, depicting the diverse life of pre-development life. This novel subverts the outsider's imagination of a refined, bourgeois, post-colonial Shanghai, revealing its rougher, more primitive, and more diverse side.
现实主义长篇小说，生动地铺陈了二十世纪七十年代至八十年代末，发生于上海浦东的一系列故事；以老浦东为布景，刻画了乔乔、崴崴、刀美香等一组组市井人物，勾勒他们爱恨交织、思想与灵魂混杂的浮世人生。这是一部百科全书式的群像小说。故事发生的六里镇，在历史与时代的变迁中，小人物的日常生活被彻底打破。作者用大量笔墨还原了老浦东的风土人情，刻画出浦东开发之前的市井百态，颠覆了外省人想象中精致的、小资情调的、后殖民时代的上海，唤醒了其粗鄙的、原生态的、泥沙俱下的另一面。
现实主义长篇小说，生动地铺陈了二十世纪七十年代至八十年代末，发生于上海浦东的一系列故事；以老浦东为布景，刻画了乔乔、崴崴、刀美香等一组组市井人物，勾勒他们爱恨交织、思想与灵魂混杂的浮世人生。这是一部百科全书式的群像小说。故事发生的六里镇，在历史与时代的变迁中，小人物的日常生活被彻底打破。作者用大量笔墨还原了老浦东的风土人情，刻画出浦东开发之前的市井百态，颠覆了外省人想象中精致的、小资情调的、后殖民时代的上海，唤醒了其粗鄙的、原生态的、泥沙俱下的另一面。
