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The Butcher's Wife by Li Ang

The Butcher's Wife

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

142 pages paperback 1983

16 editions

fiction historical dark sad tense fast-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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