The Moon Opera
  • Published:
    Feb-2009 (Hardcover)
    Sep-2011 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    128
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This “gem of a novel . . . gives us a glimpse not only into the Chinese opera world but deep into a woman's heart” (Lisa See, author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane).
 
Twenty years ago, in a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, violently assaulted her understudy. Spurned by the troupe, she turned to teaching.
 
Now, a rich cigarette-factory boss has offered to underwrite a restaging of the cursed opera -- but only on the condition that Xiao Yanqiu return to the role of Chang'e. So she does, this time believing she has fully become the immortal moon goddess . . .
 
Set against the drama, intrigue, jealousy, retribution, and redemption of backstage Peking opera, this “tiny, perfect novel [with] distant echoes of All About Eve” is a stunning portrait of women in a world that simultaneously reveres and restricts them (The Times, London).
 
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    •  
    • Sep-2011
    • Mariner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0547249829
    • ISBN13: 9780547249827
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2009
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0151012946
    • ISBN13: 9780151012947
    •  
    • Feb-2009
    • Harcourt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0547525419
    • ISBN13: 9780547525419
    •  
    • Feb-2009
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook (Kindle)



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