Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories
Su Tong author Josh Stenberg translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:2nd Jun '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
From the bestselling Chinese author of RAISE THE RED LANTERN
Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.
The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off.
Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.
The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman's dress, plots to take it from her, with tragic consequences.
What i admire most is Su Tong's style ...delicate yet bizarre. His strokes are restrained but merciless. He is a true literary talent. * Anchee Min *
Su Tong writes beautiful, dangerous prose. * Meg Wolitzer *
For RAISE THE RED LANTERN, 'A remarkable story, subtle and profound' * The New York Times *
Sensual and tragic * Sunday Times *
Su Tong's evocation of one family's destiny in 1930s China is stark and vivid in the extreme. A chilling and macabre tale, characteristically told with imagination and unflinching honesty * Time Out *
For MY LIFE AS EMPEROR: Su Tong's Xie Empire is a dreamlike, beautiful, brutal place ...his prose is full of gorgeous images * Sunday Times *
Praise for RICE: Su Tong has fashioned a cruel, heartrending and enormously passionate assault on the traditions of the Western novel. There's no love here; no redemption, no triumph of the individual. Unless you count the triumph inherent in Su Tong's overwhelming imaginative virtuosity * Rick Moody *
Breath-taking ... Su Tong renders these people so vividly they possess of us, the individuality that they deny one another * Los Angeles Times *
Scorching ...spinning a plot featuring blackmail, adultery, incest and scandal, Su Tong creates visceral drama that moves rapidly in Goldblatt's fluid translation * Publishers' Weekly Starred review *
A riveting melodrama ... page by page, the novel stuns us with a sequence of hallucinatory, disturbing inventions ...Balzac and Zola would have recognized a kindred spirit in Su Tong * Kirkus Reviews *
ISBN: 9780552774529
Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 20mm
Weight: 199g
304 pages