M Butterfly: A Play

✍ Scribed by Hwang, David Henry

• Book ID: 109771987
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 167 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101077030

✦ Synopsis

Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government--and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive--and as elusive--as a butterfly.

How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government--and a man disguised as a woman? In a series of flashbacks, the diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both. But in the end, there remains only one truth: Whether or not Gallimard's passion was a flight of fancy, it sparked the most vigorous emotions of his life.

Only in real life could love become so unreal. And only in such a dramatic tour de...