Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas AUTH-3757162 or has she already lost

or has she already lost it to an English woman

Harvard University

Stanley Cavell is Walter M

a Near East expert

ISBN13: 9780692794371

Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas AUTH-3757162 or has she already lostThe 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