Title: Getting Old not Dead

Author：Qian Jianan

Publishing House: Shandong Pictorial Publishing House

Publishing Date: 2014.08

Price: 28.00

ISBN：978-7-5474-1283-1

Pages:200

Size: thirty-two mo

Content in Briefs:

This book is a novel collection setting in Shanghai which is familiar to the 1980s’ and 1990s’. Characters in these stories are all common people living at the bottom of society, and because grown up here, every road here has connected with them somehow like tendons and vessels. Poverty accelerates the aging, makes affection between family members like a piece of paper and youth with blood. However, they still are Shanghainese putting dignity in the very first place despite of how poverty they are and even death is below the dignity.