| Farewell My Concubine: Novel, a Contributor(s): Lee, Lilian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060976446 ISBN-13: 9780060976446 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1994 Annotation: Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award-winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94009785 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.32" W x 8.19" (0.50 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Has the sweep and pang of a novel that keeps you up reading till dawn, then lives in your dreams. --Time Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award-winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lee, Lilian: - Lilian Lee is the author of more than thirty books and fifteen feature films. One of the Chinese world's leading writers, Lee's books are instant bestsellers in her native Hong Kong. She cowrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Farewell My Concubine. Farewell My Concubine was translated by Andrea Lingenfelter, a scholar and translator affiliated with the University of Washington in Seattle. |
