Retribution
Subtitle:  The Jiling Chronicles
Contributors: Howard Goldblatt (Translator); Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Translator)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780231128742
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Fiction - General; Literature: Classics
First sentence: Everyone who saw her said she was good-looking, but no one could have foreseen how such pure, unaffected beauty would one day turn into a curse.