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Dream of the Red ChamberDream of the Red Chamber
In a vast, declining aristocratic household, the dreamy young heir Jia Baoyu grows up among his brilliant, doomed female cousins, while a stone left over from the making of heaven looks on. China's greatest novel, tender, teeming, and shot through with the knowledge that all of it must pass.
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The summit of Chinese fiction, a whole world of love, poetry, and quiet ruin rendered with novelistic depth two centuries before the West caught up. Immersive, melancholy, and unforgettable.
Setting18th-century Qing China
The lavish, hierarchical world of a high Qing-dynasty noble clan, ruled by elaborate ritual and the favour of the court, where servants number in the hundreds and a family's fortune can turn on a single imperial whim.