Format:
Online-Ressource (255 p)
ISBN:
9780231128742
Content:
Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution provide the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters and events provide divergent pe
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; BOOK ONE White Dress; In Great Blessings Lane; Sun Showers; Red Sky Ballad; BOOK TWO Empty Doors; Worldly Affairs; Lamp; Eleven's Mother; BOOK THREE Chaos in Heaven; Snake Enmity; A Wonderful Spring Rain; Night in a Desolate Town; BOOK FOUR Raining Flowers; Flood; Yearning; Flowers Rain from the Sky;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231508926
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231128742
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Retribution : The Jiling Chronicles
Language:
English
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