#li ang

[aikawa-kazuki]

i think i found the book (or rather story) that made the most miserable and i say that with having read both pachinko and notes of a crocodile, to the point i had to make a conscious decision to stop reading for a moment because it was affecting my mental well being.

the butcher's wife by li ang.

the amount of abuse the mc when through is just awful, no one should go through something like that. not to mention the victim blaming from other women and lack of support for her.

posting both covers, because i really like how original Taiwanese edition looks like

(pst the book can be read here)

[weeguttersnipe]

Your fetish is quite unique.

Arsenal Military Academy (Chinese series, 2019)

[endofmatter]

[kino-free-time]

The butcher's wife and other stories - Publication from 1983

The newspaper says that Lin Shi killed her husband, the butcher, because she has a lover on the side, but that isn't true. Lin Shi's husband tortures her: the more she screams, the more he likes it.  Li Ang's highly charged collection of fiction begins with the internationally acclaimed novella The Butcher's Wife, which provoked shock and outrage in her native Taiwan when it first appeared in 1983. The short stories that follow are erotic, thought-provoking, and cautionary. A thrilling entry point into contemporary Chinese literature.

source english translation can be read here

[shihlun]

作家李昂在台北館前路，1974年

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