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Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories
  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780552774529
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99

Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories

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1 Feb 2011
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From the bestselling Chinese author of RAISE THE RED LANTERN

Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.
The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman's dress, plots to take it from her, with tragic consequences.
  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780552774529
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the authors

Su Tong

Born in 1963 in Suzhou and now living in Beijing, Su Tong is one of China's most iconic bestselling authors, shooting to international fame in 1993 when Zhang Yimou's film of his novella collection Raise the Red Lantern was nominated for an Oscar. His first short story collection, Madwoman on the Bridge was published by Black Swan in 2008. The Boat to Redemption is his latest novel to become an instant phenomenon in China.

portrait photo of Su Tong

Josh Stenberg

Josh Stenberg is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.

JS

Praise for Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories

For RAISE THE RED LANTERN, 'A remarkable story, subtle and profound'

The New York Times

Sensual and tragic

Sunday Times

Su Tong's evocation of one family's destiny in 1930s China is stark and vivid in the extreme. A chilling and macabre tale, characteristically told with imagination and unflinching honesty

Time Out

For MY LIFE AS EMPEROR: Su Tong's Xie Empire is a dreamlike, beautiful, brutal place ...his prose is full of gorgeous images

Sunday Times

What i admire most is Su Tong's style ...delicate yet bizarre. His strokes are restrained but merciless. He is a true literary talent.

Anchee Min

Su Tong writes beautiful, dangerous prose.

Meg Wolitzer

Praise for RICE: Su Tong has fashioned a cruel, heartrending and enormously passionate assault on the traditions of the Western novel. There's no love here; no redemption, no triumph of the individual. Unless you count the triumph inherent in Su Tong's overwhelming imaginative virtuosity

Rick Moody

Breath-taking ... Su Tong renders these people so vividly they possess of us, the individuality that they deny one another

Los Angeles Times

Scorching ...spinning a plot featuring blackmail, adultery, incest and scandal, Su Tong creates visceral drama that moves rapidly in Goldblatt's fluid translation

Publishers' Weekly Starred review

A riveting melodrama ... page by page, the novel stuns us with a sequence of hallucinatory, disturbing inventions ...Balzac and Zola would have recognized a kindred spirit in Su Tong

Kirkus Reviews

These are stories that will sneak into the back of your brain and lurk there long after you are finished reading.

Global Review