I Did Not Kill My Husband: A Novel

Liu Zhenyun

tet 2014 · Shitur nga Simon and Schuster

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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, softening what moves from a harsh indictment of China’s one-child law to 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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Liu Zhenyun, author of six bestselling novels—I Did Not Kill My Husband sold 1.2 million copies—and born in 1958, is a native of Henan Province in northern China. His long and short fiction has won numerous prizes in China and Hong Kong and has been translated into several languages. Part of his popularity stems from the films based on his novels, including the blockbuster Cell Phone, all directed by China’s hot director, Feng Xiaogang. He is a graduate of Peking University’s Chinese literature department.