The Concubine of Shanghai

ISBN-13: 9780241950678 / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str.

Hong Ying

Opis

Sold by her aunt in 1907 as a maid to a brothel, 16-year-old Cassia is plucked from the ranks of servant girl by a client, Power Chang, the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad. In spite of her large feet and pendulous breasts, both unbound, she becomes his favourite mistress and enjoys her first passionate encounters.

Recenzje

A brilliant and sensitive writer Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans

O autorze

Hong Ying was born into a sailor's family in Chongqing on the Yangtze River in Southwest China. An author and poet, she began her career as a full-time writer in the early 1980s having studied creative writing at Lu Xun Creative Writing Academy and Fudan University.

She is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels: K: The Art of Love (which won the Prix de Rome in 2005), The Concubine of Shanghai, Peacock Cries and Summer of Betrayal. Her autobiography, Daughter of the River, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and many of her works have been turned into television series and films. Her latest memoir, Good Children of the Flowers, a sequel to Daughter of the River, won Asia Weekly's Top Ten Books of the Year Award 2009. She lives in Beijing with her husband and daughter.