num_pages: 273
description: In seventeenth-century China, three women become emotionally involved with The Peony Pavilion, a famed opera rumored to cause lovesickness and even death, including Peony, the cloistered daughter of a wealthy scholar, who succumbs to its spell only to return after her death as a "hungry ghost" to haunt her former fiancé, who has married another.
language: English
title: Peony in Love
titlecomplete: Peony in Love
genres: Asia, Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Asian Literature, Fantasy, Adult, China, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 47199
places: Hangzhou, China
publisher: Random House