

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...

This collection of three novellas includes "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes," "Opium Family," and "Raise the Red Lantern," upon which the Academy Award(-nominated film was based.

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