The red chamber
By: Pauline A. Chen
Edition: First Vintage books edition.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780307946560
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Women; Fiction; History; Female friendship
Description: When the orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to seek shelter with her cousins in Beijing, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor presided over by the ruthless, scheming Xifeng and the prim, repressed Baochai. As she learns the secrets behind their glittering facades, she is tangled in a web of intrigue reaching all the way to the Emperor's Palace, and finds herself no longer able to distinguish friend from foe.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.