Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas

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The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in the 1930s provincial China-worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction-belie his prose of stunning and simple beauty. The title novella tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father's suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant.

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