The butcher's wife
Li Ang, 1952-2002
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Chen Jianshui is a pig-butcher in a small town. Stocky, with deep-set eyes he resembles a pig himself. His brutality towards his young wife, Lin Shi, knows no bounds. The more she screams, the more he likes it. Until she kills him with a meat cleaver.
Main title:
The butcher's wife / Li Ang ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Ellen Yeung.
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Imprint:
London : Peter Owen, 2002.
Collation:
142 p. ; 19 cm.
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Notes:
This translation originally published: 1989.
ISBN:
072061161X9780720611618
Dewey class:
895.1'352
Language:
EnglishChinese
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BRN:
342713
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