Married for ten years

Author: Su Qing
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Su Qing's novel writing initially focused on exploring the lives of women through her own experiences. The two autobiographical novels, Ten Years of Marriage and Continuation of Ten Years of Marriage, were written with the anguish of divorce. In Ten Years of Marriage, the protagonist yearns for a true love that is "where two hearts can connect, souls and souls, bodies and bodies, forever merge and embrace." Yet she is met with "the contempt of all men except her son," especially when her husband embraces "modern freedom" with his extramarital affair, which brings her deeper humiliation. The author felt that the book "failed to capture its fiery passion," so she wrote Continuation of Ten Years of Marriage, which more boldly depicts the intimate lives of men and women. The book portrays the protagonist's experiences from marriage to childbirth, facing discrimination at every turn, from building a family to the eventual divorce, showcasing the struggles and helplessness of a modern woman pursuing a new life. On the author's pen, each scene of feudal family customs flows, intertwining to create a genuine record of women's hearts suffering humiliation and injury.