蘇童，男，生於1963年1月，江蘇蘇州人。1980年考入北京師範大學中文係，1984年到南京工作，一度擔任《鍾山》編輯，現為中國作傢協會江蘇分會駐會專業作傢。1983年開始發錶小說，迄今有作品百十萬字，其中中短篇小說集七部，長篇小說二部。中篇小說 《妻妾成群》被著名電影導演張藝謀改編成電影《大紅燈籠高高掛》，獲奧斯卡金像奬提名。

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When Five Dragons, a poor country boy, chances his fortune in the city, his brutal humiliation at the hands of a gang of wharf rats hones his purpose to a knife-edge. His desire for power and women is insatiable and when he marries Cloud Weave, the disgraced beautiful daughter of a wealthy rice emporium owner, and inherits the business, fulfilment beckons. But men tire easily of their playthings, particularly in this wayward family, and Cloud Weave is too headstrong to be bound by the shackles of her sex...

In his unforgettablefirstnovel.Su long writes about pre-war China and the unspoken brutality of a family that is devouring itself THESUNDAYTIMES

'Su long's evocation of one family's destiny in 1930s'China is stark and vivid in the extreme. A chilling and macabre tale, characteristically told with imagination and unflinching honesty1 TIMEOUT

'Su Tong has fashioned in Rice a heart-rending, and enormously

passionate assault on the traditions of the western novel. There's no love

here; there's no redemption; there's no triumph of the individual. Unless you

count the triumph inherent in SuTong's overwhelming

imaginative virtuosity'

RICK MOODY, author of PURPLE AMERICA