The Butcher's Wife by Li Ang

The Butcher's Wife

Li Ang with Howard Goldblatt (Translator), Ellen Yeung (Translator)

142 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction feminism historical adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
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Chen Jiangshui is a pig-butcher in a small coastal Taiwanese town. Stocky, with a paunch and deep-set beady eyes, he resembles a pig himself. His brutality towards his new young wife, Lin Shi, knows no bounds. The more she screams, the more he lik...

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