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Raise the Red Lantern : Three Novellas by Su Tong is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Raise the Red Lantern : Three Novellas about?
When The Internationally Acclaimed Film Raise The Red Lantern Opened In North America, It Was Praised By Critics And Nominated For An Academy Award. This Extraordinary Film Was Based On An Even More Sensual And Brutal Novella By One Of China's Most Provocative New Wave Writers--a Then-twenty-six-year-old Nanjing Resident Named Su Tong (now Thirty-one). The Title Novella Is A Hauntingly Beautiful, Nightmarish Tale Of Four Concubines Competing For The Sexual Attentions Of Their Master In A Stifling, 1930s Rural Clan House. Su Tong Explores A World Where Emotionally Stunted Men Thoughtlessly Destroy The Women In Their Lives; Where The Women Seem To Rise Above Their Surroundings Even As They Are Crushed By Their Circumstances; Where Insanity Is Both A Weapon And A Refuge. Called A Little Feast Of Venomous Subtlety By One Critic. Raise The Red Lantern Dazzles With Its Cold Beauty, Perverse Cruelty, Violent Sexuality, And Hypnotic Decadence.^ Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes Is Also Concerned With The Grotesque Psychological Realities Of The Human Condition. The Narrator Examines The History Of His Family In 1934, A Year Of Disaster. In This Novella, A Fifteen-year-old Boy (the Narrator's Un
Who reads Raise the Red Lantern : Three Novellas?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Su Tong
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060596330
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (1,233 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14