I DIDN’T KILL MY HUSBAND – Novel by Liu Zhenyun

Many Chinese writers seek to make sense of China’s newly urbanized culture, but Liu Zhenyun seems to have his finger more firmly on the pulse of China’s cities. After graduating from university, he became a journalist at the Farmers Daily.He was born in Yanjin (Henan Province), in 1958. In 1973 he joined the People’s Liberation Army and spent years in the Gobi desert. In 1978, he took the gaokao and got the highest score in Henan Province admitted into the prestigious Peking University. His novel One Sentence worth Ten Thousand was awarded the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize. About his novels, you can find “I Did Not Kill My Husband”. https://www.amazon.it/Did-Not-Kill-Husband-2014-10-14/dp/B01K31YFB0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482522687&sr=1-1&keywords=I+Did+Not+Kill+My+Husband

An absurd and funny comedy, but also a harsh indictment of the one-child law and a frontal criticism of China’s corrupt system. I did not kill my husband is a satirical novel first-rate, sharp and ironic. She is married and is expecting her second child. In China, this is not a pleasant news, because the one-child law would make them two criminals. The only way is to get divorced before the birth of the child (as soon as the child will be recorded to the registry, they will get married again. After the divorce, her ex-husband marries another woman, but his ex-wife explains to a judge how things are.