The Butcher's Wife by Ellen Yeung, Ellen Young, Li Ang, Howard Goldblatt

The Butcher's Wife

Ellen Yeung, Ellen Young, Li Ang, Howard Goldblatt

142 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative reflective slow-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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