TY  - BOOK
AU  - Su,Tong
AU  - Duke,Michael S.
AU  - Su,Tong
AU  - Su,Tong
AU  - Su,Tong
TI  - Raise the red lantern: three novellas 
SN  - 0060596333
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Perennial
KW  - Su, Tong,
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Raise the red lantern -- Nineteen thirty-four escapes -- Opium family
N2  - 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
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