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Raise the Red Lantern - Three Novellas - Su Tong

Raise the Red Lantern - Three Novellas

Author
Su Tong
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NZ$14.00
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The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China - worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction - belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, Raise the Red Lantern, which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father's suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge.
Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes is an account of a family's struggles during one momentous year; plagued by disease, death, and the shady promise of life in a larger town, the family slowly disintegrates. Finally, Opium Family details the last years of a landowning clan whose demise is brought about by corruption, lust, and treachery - fruits of the insidious crop they harvest....

Format
Second hand Paperback
ISBN
9780060596330
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SKU
135367

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