Madwoman on the Bridge

Su Tong

earliest edition we have, 2008 Penguin Random House, 2009

Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture magnificently the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy. The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer, to the derision of the townspeople, she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched...

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Madwoman on the Bridge edition · 2009 · Penguin Random House · 9781407067551
Madwoman on the Bridge edition · 2008 · Transworld Publishers Limited · 304 pages · 9780552774529

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