Tong Su

قصص صينية

الفرار في عام 1934

Maria Rita Masci

In una Cina immersa nel medioevo, la giovane Songlian accetta di diventare quarta sposa e concubina del ricco Chen per uscire dalla povertà. Il marito ha il diritto di scegliere ogni sera la donna con cui passera la notte mettendo una lanterna rossa davanti alla sua residenza. L'unica che ha il coraggio e gli strumenti culturali per ribellarsi e Songlian.

Mogli e concubine

In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then one day Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles and forced to labour on a project of terrifying ambition and scale - the building of the Great Wall. Binu is determined to find and save her husband. Inspired by her love, she sets out on an extraordinary journey towards Great Swallow Mountain, with only a blind frog for company. What follows is an unforgettable story of passion, hardship and magical adventure.

Binu and the Great Wall

Disgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party - it has been officially proved he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by the citizens of Milltown, Secretary Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people on a fleet of industrial barges. Refusing to renounce his high status, he maintains a distance - with Dongliang, his teenage son - from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him. One day a feral little girl, Huixian, arrives looking for her mother, who has jumped to her death in the river. The boat people, and especially Dongliang, take her to their hearts. But Huixian sows conflict wherever she goes, and soon Dongliang is in the grip of an obsession for her. He takes on Life, Fate and the Party in the only way he knows.

The Boat to Redemption

Lanterne rosse

Cipria

Eva Siikarla

Punainen lyhty

Lumea de orez

From the bestselling Chinese author of Raise the Red Lantern, these bizarre and delicate stories, set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, capture the collision of old China with communism and today’s tiger economy.

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