Лучшие книги Су Туна

Своевольное воображение Су Туна создало образ Сун Лянь. Как Флобер о госпоже Бовари, этот китайский писатель мог бы сказать о себе: "Сун Лянь - это я". Редко кто из сословия сочинителей так сведущ во всех уловках женской души, утаенных чувствах и мыслях, недосказанностях, изощренной мстительности, скрытых неблаговидных действиях, словом, темных водах, в которых отражается Луна, властительница чувственных наслаждений, - как сведущ Су Тун. В книге использованы картины китайской художницы Цзя Лу.

С ледяным спокойствием молодой Дуаньбай принимает известие о том, что старый император завещал трон именно ему, своему пятому сыну. Слабый, равнодушный и бесталанный правитель, он пьянеет от сознания собственного могущества и с упоением подвергает подданных пыткам и мучениям, железной рукой ведя страну к катастрофе.

"Последний император" - завораживающая история извращенной жестокости и морального падения, смертельной борьбы за власть и запутанных дворцовых интриг.

Драматичная новелла, в которой маленький внучек на свой лад облегчает дедушке переход в мир иной.

Повествуя о крахе торгующей рисом семьи, о мечтах и мытарствах юнца, убежавшего в город из смытой потопом деревни, Су Тун погружает читателя в мрачные будни Китая начала минувшего века, где пища, валюта, фермент сладострастья, орудье убийства и символ всех благ — это рис. Отверзающий бездны безумных страстей и диковиной чувственности, опьяняющий обворожительной прозою «Рис» — роман редких словесных красот и неистовой творческой силы.

Культурная революция в Китае глазами ребенка

In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage.Then one day Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles and forced to labour on a project of terrifying ambition and scale - the building of the Great Wall.Binu is determined to find and save her husband. Inspired by her love, she sets out on an extraordinary journey towards Great Swallow mountain, with only a blind frog for company. What follows is an unforgettable story of passion, hardship…

In this chilling yet enormously entertaining tale by acclaimed Chinese writer Su Tong, a pampered and nave 14-year-old prince finds himself, suddenly and unexpectedly, named Emperor and placed in the position of lord and ruler over an entire nation.

Su Tong is one of the most acclaimed novelists in China today. He came to international attention in 1993 when the film of his novella Raise the Red Lantern was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2009, he was awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize for The Boat to Redemption. He lives in Nanjing with his family.

Disgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party - it has been officially proved he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by the citizens of Milltown, Secretary Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people on a fleet of industrial barges. Refusing to renounce his high status, he maintains a distance - with Dongliang, his teenage son - from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him. One day a feral little girl, Huixian, arrives looking for her mother, who has jumped to her death in the river. The boat people, and especially Dongliang, take her to their hearts. But Huixian sows conflict wherever she goes, and soon Dongliang is in the grip of an obsession for her. He takes on Life, Fate and the Party in the only way he knows . . .

The girl had always been called Taya. Her companion Kort had always been with her. She accepted these things, and why not? They were her world. But Taya wondered why everything she could see beyond the window was so different from all the things inside. She also wondered why the stars never changed if her world was really moving the way her metal friend Kort said it was....Could Kort be wrong? That would be very strange, because Kort knew everything, and he was sure they and the world were moving -- just as she was sure the stars were not. Then one day, when Taya was 12, the World was born anew...."Pure science fiction....Arthur Clarke, move over". -- Isaac Asimov