Jasmine Tea

Author: Chang, Eileen

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Archive' series.

Paperback | 144 pages
179 x 111 x 10 | 92g

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘But how sweet a fruit the ‘suppose’ must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green: a fruit that hides the tart within the sweet.’In this haunting collection of stories, a young man’s obsession leads to tragedy and a woman’s bitterness poisons a family’s legacy. In delicate, piercing prose, Chang captures a world of quiet cruelties and calamitous desires in pre-revolutionary China.