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.

Rice

Literature & Fiction

Su, Tong

Literary

Penguin??Books

When the internationally acclaimed film Raise the Red Lantern opened in the US, it played to packed theaters in cities nationwide and was nominated for an Academy Award. The extraordinary novella on which the film was based is now being published in English for the first time.

Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas

Contemporary

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

The Overlook Press

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 ...

Genre Fiction

Random House]

My Life as Emperor

Faber and Faber

The first novel by the author of "Raise the Red Lantern". In 1930s China, rice is power, influence, sexual potency and the means of survival. This is the story of a country boy who migrates to the city and becomes owner of a rice emporium, and his volatile wives and dangerous, violent children.

SIMON SCHUSTER (TRADE DIVISION)

Adopting a vicious, starving wanderer from the provinces of pre-Communist China, a city family suffers human debasement and spiritual degradation that threatens to tear it apart.

Touchstone Books

Scribner

Four concubines compete for the sexual attentions of their master in a stifling 1930s rural clan house in a collection of novellas that explore relationships between women and men. 25,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

Tong, Su

William Morrow & Co.

Adopting a vicious, starving wanderer from the provinces of pre-communist China, a city family suffers human debasement and spiritual degradation that threatens to tear it apart

Rice: A Novel

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Rice

Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas

The Boat to Redemption

The Boat to Redemption

My Life as Emperor

Rice

Rice

Rice

Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas

Rice: A Novel