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Red Rose, White Rose, EPUB eBook

Red Rose, White Rose EPUB

Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series

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There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose.

One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress.

Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too?

Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two.

Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.

In Eileen Chang's eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love.

But when he meets a friend's spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their relationship under his control.

As he succumbs to passions and resentments, Red Rose, White Rose is both sensual and restrained.

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