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The Rouge of the North
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Product Description
The Rouge of the North is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Captive to household ritual, to the strategies and contempt of her sisters-in-law, and to the exacting dictates of her husband's mother, Yindi is pressed beneath the weight of an existence that offers no hope of change. Dramatic events in the outside world fail to make their way into this insular society. Chang's brilliant portrayal of the slow suffocation of passion, moral strength, and physical vitality--together with her masterful evocation of the sights, smells, and sounds of daily existence--make The Rouge of the North a remarkable chronicle of a vanished way of life.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1081370 in Books
- Published on: 1998-08-10
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 185 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Published in 1955 and 1967, respectively, Rice offers a glimpse of rural life in China during the early years of the People's Republic, while Rouge follows the life of a woman locked in a dismal marriage that ultimately drives her insane. Though set in China and featuring native characters, Chang's books nonetheless are for all readers.
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Ingram
With the reissue of "The Rouge of the North" and "The Rice Sprout Song", readers will have the opportunity to appreciate Eileen Chang's elegant prose style, her harrowing analyses of human motives, and her keen understanding of desire, loneliness, and hunger, both physical and metaphysical. "Eileen Chang beautifully and movingly evokes 20th-century China and the hearts and minds of Chinese women".--Jung Chang, author of "Wild Swans".
From the Inside Flap
"The Rouge of the North tells of the melancholy life of a lower-class woman trapped within the confines of an unhappy arranged marriage. Taking the reader through the stages of this woman's gradual descent into madness, it contains some of the most notable novelistic features of Chang's work. A poignant story."--Rey Chow, University of California, Irvine
