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.
This sweeping drama spans five decades and focuses on the consuming love one male opera star holds for another male opera singer and the beautiful courtesan who comes between them. A film based on the book, directed by Chen Kaige, is scheduled for release in the US in October 1993.
She was a cousin of the last emperor of China, a ruthless sexual adventurer, a stunning beauty, commander of an army, a cold-blooded killer, a passionate lover of men and women, and a spy for the Japanese in World War II China. This dazzling novel based on her true-life exploits will move, shock, and fascinate readers the world over. The first of ...
This unusual epic romance moves from the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s through the horrors of WWII Japanese occupation to Hong Kong in modern times.
Yoshiko Kawashima era prima del ultimo emperador de China: una mujer arrebatadora, capaz de asesinar a sangre fria, apasionada con hombres y mujeres, espia de los japoneses en la Segunda Guerra Mundial... Pero Yoshiko, al mismo tiempo, nunca dejo de ser la nina a la que separaron bruscamente de su madre; ni la joven a la que se le nego cruelmente ...
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