Rice: A Novel - Softcover

Tong, Su

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060596325 ISBN 13: 9780060596323

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2004

Synopsis

Set in famine-stricken 1930s China, Rice chronicles the complete debasement of a city family after it takes in a young man named Five Dragons, a starving wanderer from the provinces whose desire for power and sex is insatiable. In this mesmerizing novel, Su Tong, China's most provocative young writer, explores the connections between hunger, sexuality, and brutality. Rice is used as food and currency, as an aphrodisiac and an implement of sexual torture, as a weapon for murder and a symbol of everything good. Lush and sensual, combining a strange comedy with a dark undercurrent of violence, and written in hypnotically beautiful prose, Rice is a novel of startling richness and furious creative energy.

About this title

About the Author:

Su Tong was born in Suzhou in 1963 and graduated from Beijing Normal University with a degree in Chinese literature. He is the author of Raise the Red Lantern, also available from Perennial. Su Tong lives in Nanjing.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060596325
• ISBN 13: 9780060596323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288