num_pages: 142
description: A 1930s Shanghai case of a woman who murdered her husband inspired Li Ang to write this deep and harrowing novel that was an outrageous literary sensation. In a small coastal Taiwanese town, the pig butcher's brutality towards his new young wife knows no bounds. She becomes scorned by her neighbors who condemn her for screaming aloud. Lin Shin, isolated, despairing, is finally driven to madness and kills him with his own meat cleaver. ""May be the most frightening book ever written about women oppressed by men""--Los Angeles Times.
language: English
title: The Butcher's Wife
titlecomplete: The Butcher's Wife
genres: Feminism, Literature, 20th Century, Chinese Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, China, Fiction, Asian Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 712
publisher: North Point Pr