Raise the red lantern : three novellas /
Su, Tong, 1963-
Raise the red lantern : three novellas / Su Tong ; translated by Michael S. Duke. - 1st Perennial ed. - New York : Perennial, 2004. - 267 pages ; 21 cm
Raise the red lantern -- Nineteen thirty-four escapes -- Opium family.
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 simple beauty. 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.
0060596333 9780060596330
2004045652
Su, Tong, 1963- --Translations into English.
Domestic fiction.
Raise the red lantern : three novellas / Su Tong ; translated by Michael S. Duke. - 1st Perennial ed. - New York : Perennial, 2004. - 267 pages ; 21 cm
Raise the red lantern -- Nineteen thirty-four escapes -- Opium family.
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 simple beauty. 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.
0060596333 9780060596330
2004045652
Su, Tong, 1963- --Translations into English.
Domestic fiction.