Used Book – La Vallée Des Roses - Lucien Bodard - Grasset - Les Cahiers Rouges

Author(s): Lucien Bodard Publisher: Grasset & Fasquelle Collection: Les cahiers rouges Publication: 14/09/1999 Number of pages: 479 Number of books: 1 Weight: 414 g Dimensions: 19.1 x 12.1 x 2.3 EAN: 9782246048138 Summary:

Around 1850, Yi, a young Manchu beauty, nurtures an incredible dream: to become "wife of Emperor Hieng-fong, a drunk and a pederast. She will succeed, driven by a rage "to crush, to act, to enjoy". This insane ambition, in a surreal China, involves the Concubinage contest, sexual machinations, and even the Emperor's final poisoning. A debauchery of refinements, of joys in crime, while the Western "Barbarians" advance on Beijing... In La Vallée des roses (a Chinese metaphor for the female sex), the Bodardian torrent flows, golden and muddy, in a whirlwind of the unusual, of horrors.