The Eighteenth Century Chinese Masterpiece of Magical Realism in a New Translation for the Twenty-First Century!

Simultaneously an easy-reading light novel, a Buddhist allegory, and a semi-autobiographical depiction of the decline of an aristocratic Chinese family in the eighteenth century, there has never been another work like Cao Xueqin's A Dream of Red Chambers. Life, love, sex, family, and the tribulations of adolescence, all set against a backdrop of unimaginable luxury.

The first five chapters of A Dream of Red Chambers come alive like never before in this modern translation, the first new attempt to convey this classic novel in English since the eighties.