Rose rouge et rose blanche - Softcover

Chang, Eileen; Péchenart, Emmanuelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2910884376 ISBN 13: 9782910884376

Publisher: Bleu de Chine, 2001

Synopsis

There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.

In Eileen Chang's eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love. But when he meets a friend's spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their relationship under his control. As he succumbs to passions and resentments, Red Rose, White Rose is both sensual and restrained.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bleu de Chine
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2910884376
• ISBN 13: 9782910884376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 89