Raise the red lantern : three novellas / Su Tong ; translated by Michael S. Duke.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Publication details: New York : Perennial, 2004.Edition: 1st Perennial edDescription: 267 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0060596333
- 9780060596330
- Su, Tong, 1963- Da hong de deng long gao gao gua. English
- Su, Tong, 1963- 1934 nian de tao wang. English
- Su, Tong, 1963- Ying su zhi jia. English
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | SU, TONG | Available | 33111010810451 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
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.