Farewell My Concubine: A Brilliant Novel of Passion and Love in the Chinese Opera World

"Has the sweep and pang of a novel that keeps you up reading till dawn, then lives in your dreams." —Time

Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award-winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them.