Raise the Red Lantern
Subtitle: Three Novellas
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: July 6, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060596330
First sentence: When Fourth Mistress, Lotus, was carried into the Chen family garden, she was nineteen; she was carried into the garden through the back gate on the west side at dusk, by four rustic sedan bearers.