The Red Chamber
分类: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）,Genre Fiction（类型小说）,Family Saga,
品牌: Pauline A. Chen
基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年7月10日)精装:400页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307701573条形码:9780307701572商品重量:730 gASIN:0307701573您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介In this lyrical reimagining of the Chinese classicDream of the Red Chamber,set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing, the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion. When orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to take shelter with her cousins in the Capital, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor, presided over by the ruthless, scheming Xifeng and the prim, repressed Baochai. As she learns the secrets behind their glittering façades, she finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue and hidden passions, reaching from the petty gossip of the servants’ quarters all the way to the Imperial Palace. When a political coup overthrows the emperor and plunges the once-mighty family into grinding poverty, each woman must choose between love and duty, friendship and survival.
In this dazzling debut, Pauline A. Chen draws the reader deep into the secret, exquisite world of the women’s quarters of an aristocratic household, where the burnish of wealth and refinement mask a harsher truth: marriageable girls are traded like chattel for the family’s advancement, and to choose to love is to risk everything. 作者简介Pauline A. Chenearned her B.A. in classics from Harvard, her J.D. from Yale Law School, and her Ph.D. in East Asian studies from Princeton. She has taught Chinese language, literature, and film at the University of Minnesota and Oberlin College. She is also the author of a novel for young readers,Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas,and lives in Ohio with her two children.
