The Red Chamber
$74.84
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2013
Summary
On the death of her mother, Lin Daiyu, a beautiful young girl, is taken far away to the capital to live with her mother’s aristocratic relatives in the inner courtyards of Rongguo Mansion. Educated and resourceful, Daiyu has grown up in relative freedom down south. Now she finds herself in the strictly regulated society of 18th century Beijing where women are bought and traded like cattle. This is a highly competitive female society of first wives, concubines and servants all jockeying for po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844087709 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844087700 |
| Author: | Pauline Chen |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Virago Press |
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Pauline Chen raises the bar extraordinarily high … The Red Chamber canters along quickly thanks to the author’s ability to stop effortlessly into another time and place … This is a well-crafted novel full of skill and grace from an author to watch out for - Sunday Business Post
A compelling new version of China’s great masterpiece. It will transport you into an altogether new world - Arthur Golden, Author Of Memoirs Of A GeishaBold and memorable … Chen retells and recreates in lush detail the daily life inside the Rongguo Mansion, where scandalous secrets and lies are hidden behind a grand façade - Chicago TribuneAbout The Author
Pauline Chen
Pauline Chen has degrees from Harvard and Yale Law School, and a doctorate from Princeton University and has taught at the University of Minnesota. At age 34, she left academia to pursue a long-deferred dream of writing fiction.
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