Between Confidantes

Between Confidantes contains two novellas. Between Confidantesis a beautifully wrought and intriguing novel set amidst Shanghai's leafy plane trees and softly lit streets, recounting the story of a friendship torn apart by love and ambition. In Memory of the Departed, Chen Danyan takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through the complexities wrought by history on a mother, her daughter and their circle of friends in Shanghai during the tumultuous years between 1944 and 1978. The writer's depiction of the desperate search for meaning and happiness in a period of unpredictable change and conflict beyond the grasp of its victims, bring to life a devastating time in China's history as well as the difficulties and challenges of growing up and finding truth.

Chen Danyan is a well-known author noted for her writings on youth and of city tales on the Chinese mainland. Her writings about Chinese youth focus on the conflicts between parents and children, the tremendous changes in the life of youth in a single-child society, the impact of the Cultural Revolution and the trials of growing up in times of great social upheaval and turbulence. Her novel, About a Girl, was published in 1993 and its German edition, entitled Nine Lives, was published in Switzerland in 1995. In 1996, Nine Lives was awarded a gold prize for best children's books from the Austrian government, a silver prize for best children's books from the German government.

Her stories about Chinese cities have made her one of the best-selling authors achieving record book sales on the Chinese mainland since 1998. She writes mostly about Shanghai where she has lived most of her life, reflecting urban life in this city. Since 1999, she has written and published 9 books to represent her well-rounded travel of the world.

Another two works of Chen Danyan, Shanghai Princess: Her Survival with Pride and Dignity and My Mother Is a Fairy have also been translated into English and published.

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