I Did Not Kill My Husband: A Novel - Rilegato

Zhenyun, Liu

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ISBN 10: 1628724269 ISBN 13: 9781628724264

Casa editrice: Arcade Pub, 2014

Riassunto

Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the second child is born.

Once the baby has entered into the household registry, we’ll marry again. The baby will be born after the divorce, so we’ll each have one child when we marry again. No law says couples with one child can’t marry.” Perfect! Except that after the divorce, Qin marries . . . another woman who is expecting a baby. Mad with rage, Li runs to the judge, begging him to declare the divorce a sham so she may remarry and truly divorce the fool!

Liu’s politically charged plot reads like an absurd and hilarious comedy, but couched in his fiction is a harsh indictment of China’s one-child law and a head-on critique of China’s corrupt system. I Did Not Kill My Husband is storytelling and satire of the highest order, sharp-edged and ironic.

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Recensione:

"Government fear of chaos is omnipresent in this expertly translated political farce . . . an intimate portrait of the local politics that matter so greatly in China." —The New York Times

"A masterful tale that will make you laugh even as you despair . . . Wickedly subtle satire." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

L'autore:

Liu Zhenyun: Liu Zhenyun joined the People's Liberation Army in 1973 China and spent five years in the Gobi desert. After graduating from Peking University, he became a journalist at the Daily Farmers. He won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011 and is the author of I Am Not Pan Jinlian,One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, and Flour and Flowers from My Homeland.

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• Editore: Arcade Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1628724269
• ISBN 13: 9781628724264
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 216