穿越三座喧嚣繁华的都市，遇上19个怅惋幽微的爱情瞬间，总有一种滋味能够打动你的内心。本书是作者章缘写给现代男女的爱情笔记，以女性的角度观照细火慢炖的人生，写出了都市男女那些隐藏于穿衣吃饭下、一触即发的躁动与不安。作者长于台湾，留美多年而今长居上海，小说糅合了上海台北纽约三座城市的情致与韵味，深入探索欲望的涌现和情感的流向，被誉为是“张爱玲回到了上海”。夏志清称其小说“无懈可击，读来极为感人”；王鼎钧称其是“纽约华人文坛的青衣”，“ 文笔细腻，仍跌宕有势，想象力丰富，仍反映现实”；王德威评价其“表现出敏锐的观察力和同情心，不为各种文学流派所局限”。（While going through the three noisy and bustling cities and meeting 19 regretful and faint moments of love, there is a taste that can move your inner heart. The book is the love note that the author, Zhang Yuan, wrote for modern men and women. She observes the life from female’s perspective and writes about urban men and women’s hair-trigger restlessness hiding under dressing and eating. The author grew up in Taiwan, studied in the United States for many years and now lives in Shanghai. The novel mixes the temperament, interest, beauty and charm of Shanghai, Taipei and New York and has in-depth exploration of the emergence of desires and the flow of emotions. She is known as the “Eileen Chang returning to Shanghai’. Xia Zhiqing said her novel is “impeccable and very touching to read”; Wang Dingjun called her “Qingyi of Chinese Literary Circles in New York” and said “her writing is fine and smooth, has ups and downs, has rich imagination and can still reflect the reality”; Wang Dewei appraised that she “shows sharp observation and compassion and is not limited by various schools of literature”.）