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Tong Su - Raise The Red Lantern Three Novellas - Paperback
Tong Su - Raise The Red Lantern Three Novellas - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Raise The Red Lantern Three Novellas
Author(s): Tong Su
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060596330
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/6/2004
Description: 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.
Title: Raise The Red Lantern Three Novellas
Author(s): Tong Su
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060596330
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/6/2004