Raise the red lantern three novellas

• Main Author: Tong, Su (Author)
• Other Authors: Duke, Michael S.
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: New York Perennial 2004
• Edition: Perennial ed
• Subjects: Su, Tong > 1963- > Translations into English; Su, Tong > Translations into English > 1963
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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.