Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters

A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’ s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker).

At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-classes houses.

Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life.