Madwoman On The Bridge Storycuts

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125845

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Madwoman on the Bridge (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

The madwoman was wearing a white velvet cheongsam. Standing on the bridge, she revelled in her own faded splendour. Normal people pay no attention to madwomen, but one woman from Shaoxing stayed on the bridge that afternoon to talk to this one; what was she coveting? Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : CCV Digital
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407067559

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Madwoman on the Bridge by Su Tong Pdf

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125906

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Weeping Willow (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

Weeping Willow was a place that survived by serving long-distance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, but more shaken when he left. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125814

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Goddess Peak/The Q of Hearts (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

In 'Goddess Peak', Miaoyue and Li Yong were almost the last two passengers aboard the steamboat to Goddess Peak - them and Li Yong's friend Mr Cui. Miaoyue found Mr Cui taller and better built than she'd imagined, and also a little younger and more handsome. For some reason, this irritated her. In 'The Q of Hearts', when the boy found the Queen of Hearts missing from his deck of cards, he immediately assumed that someone had stolen it. It was 1969, and those cards were his only toy. He searched everywhere for a new one - but only found things to frighten him. Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125807

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Dance of Heartbreak/The Diary for August (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

In 'Dance of Heartbreak', something happened to a young boy in Grade 4, at Red Flag Elementary School; but even today the whole affair remains fresh in his mind. He'd never met another girl like her; she was a little child of glass, beautiful in her sorrow when she ran to centre stage. For him, she was an archetype. In 'The Diary for August', the inspector looked at the suspect who had been brought in for the incident at the city wall. He was fourteen or fifteen, dripping wet from the swimming pool where they had found him, and both his legs were trembling. It looked like he knew he had caused a disaster. Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125890

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Thieves (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

Tan Feng was my one and only friend in Sichuan. He was the same age as me: about eight or nine. Tan Feng's family lived next door to us, and their other kids were all girls, so you can imagine how they spoiled their only boy. They really adored him, but they didn't know what he got up to. Tan Feng stole things. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125821

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Atmospheric Pressure (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

The train was late, and the wind was blowing Meng's coat open in the snow. With no sign of his cousin, he needed somewhere to stay the night. An old man enticed him to a second-rate hostel, and despite his annoyance, Meng couldn't shake the feeling that he'd seen this place, and the old man, before. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125869

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On Saturdays (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

You don't expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi's visiting day. Every Saturday. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.`

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125883

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The Private Banquet (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

Bao Qing was a classic example of what people in Maqiao meant when they spat out the word 'intellectual'. Coming home to his old town for the holidays was just as much trouble as not coming home, for this was a town where his old schoolmate Fatcat had every local business in his pocket. And Fatcat considered the returning 'professor' a celebrity. Bao Qing was about to get an invitation he could not refuse. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125838

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Home in May (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

Yongshan is taking her son back to Licheng to visit relatives, and to see the town where she grew up. But when they get there, all she could find were desolate houses. Even the people on the street seemed not to recognise her. But then, in the rubble of her old neighbourhood, Yongshan finds something to grab hold of - a memento of the past. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125876

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The Giant Baby (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

It was rare for the people from Wangbao to come down from their mountain village, but one spring, they arrive in town with sensational news - a virgin birth. What's more, there is something very odd about the baby - he is as big as a child of three, black all over and missing a finger. The villagers whisper that he is the thunder god's son, but back in town, the local doctor knows something he is too afraid to tell. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448125791

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How the Ceremony Ends/The Water Demon (Storycuts) by Su Tong Pdf

In 'How the Ceremony Ends', it was last winter that the folklorist paid his visit to the village of Eight Pines. He wanted to collect folk tales and customs, to re-enact the ceremonies of life and death that only old men still remember. But somehow he managed to provoke the villagers. In 'The Water Demon', at the beginning, no-one noticed the little girl on the bridge. No-one knew what she was doing; she just stood and watched. She would call out loudly, 'Here comes the water demon! Get out of the water or he will get you by the feet!' and tear away out of sight. Then, one day, there was no little girl on the bridge. Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060596333

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Raise the Red Lantern by Su Tong Pdf

The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father's suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of a family's struggles during one momentous year; plagued by disease, death, and the shady promise of life in a larger town, the family slowly disintegrates. Finally, "Opium Family" details the last years of a landowning clan whose demise is brought about by corruption, lust, and treachery -- fruits of the insidious crop they harvest.

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Random House
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409094104

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The Boat to Redemption by Su Tong Pdf

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 . . .

Author : Su Tong
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781760144524

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Petulia's Rouge Tin: Penguin Specials by Su Tong Pdf

Who would have anticipated that Petulia, stripped of her silk gowns, would be forced to denounce the Red Delight Pavilion? Or believed that Autumn Grace would cry in desperation as nuns shave off her locks? After years working side-by-side, their sudden goodbye was the first sign of a changing society. Still, the scent of rouge filling their memories keeps them close, despite the twists and turns that life throws at them. Until one day, the promise of love and stability becomes a temptation neither can deny. . .