Farewell My Concubine: Novel, a

"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.

Author: Lilian Lee
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/03/1994
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.32w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780060976446

About the Author
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.