Wives and concubines in abundance

Author: Su Tong
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The Family uses the unique feudal family model of old China as the framework for the novel, where a man marries four women as his wives. However, the author is not concerned with how a man navigates among the four women or controls them, but rather with how the four women tie themselves together on a man's neck and, like a withering vine in thin air, mutually strangle each other to fight for that little bit of air.