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A novel that explores love, reflects on humanity, and captures every dimension of romance. It confronts life directly, excavates deeply, and reveals the true meaning of love and existence.
• Topped the bestseller list.
• Featured in over a thousand media outlets.
• Translated into Thirteen languages.
After their marriage ends in divorce, a man and a woman silently maintain a tacit sexual relationship. A man from a working-class background marries a beautiful, wealthy woman-only to seek desperately for release after the wedding. A materialistic woman successfully secures a wealthy husband-only to discover that married life is not what she intended.
This is a novel about people navigating the secular landscape of love and marriage, encountering setbacks of every kind-questioning love, questioning life, and even undertaking a profound meditation on humanity and the essence of human being itself.
A remarkably meticulous and incisive exploration of love's true meaning and its reflection on humanity.
Acclaimed by over a thousand media outlets as a masterpiece comparable to Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
• Topped the bestseller list.
• Featured in over a thousand media outlets.
• Translated into Thirteen languages.
After their marriage ends in divorce, a man and a woman silently maintain a tacit sexual relationship. A man from a working-class background marries a beautiful, wealthy woman-only to seek desperately for release after the wedding. A materialistic woman successfully secures a wealthy husband-only to discover that married life is not what she intended.
This is a novel about people navigating the secular landscape of love and marriage, encountering setbacks of every kind-questioning love, questioning life, and even undertaking a profound meditation on humanity and the essence of human being itself.
A remarkably meticulous and incisive exploration of love's true meaning and its reflection on humanity.
Acclaimed by over a thousand media outlets as a masterpiece comparable to Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
