Published by Black Swan, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
Su Tong
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552774529
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EAN: 9780552774529
Published: 2 Jun 2008
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.
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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
These are stories that will sneak into the back of your brain and lurk there long after you are finished reading.
- Global Review
Born in 1963 in Suzhou and now living in Beijing with his family, Su Tong is one of China's most celebrated bestselling authors, shooting to international fame in 1993 when Zhang Yimou's film of his novella Raise the Red Lantern was nominated for an Oscar. Madwoman on the Bridge is his first collection of short stories ever to be published. It is to be followed by his latest novel, Check, a violent drama set in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, to be published by Doubleday in 2009.
