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Twenty years ago, in a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, violently assaulted her understudy. Spurned by the troupe, she turned to teaching. Now, a rich cigarette-factory boss has offered to underwrite a restaging of the cursed opera-but only on the condition that Xiao Yanqiu return to the role of Chang'e. So she does, this time believing she has fully become the immortal moon goddess . . .
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Reviews
"This tiny, perfect novel concerns the hermetic world of traditional Peking opera [with] distant echoes of All About Eve."
Times (London)
"The reader finds himself easily drawn into the very coded universe of Chinese opera . . . A real moment of pleasure."
Asia News