The Good Woman of Setzuan

Aug 9, 2025 3:47 AM

Author:Bertolt Brecht,Eric Bentley

This play, written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between her own needs and those of her friends and neighbours.

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Another brilliantly savage, laugh-out-loud page-turner from Elton

—— OK Magazine

Quite simply, the sharpest writer of fiction in Ireland today - and I'm talking totally

—— IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY

There's a razor sharp edge to Paul Howard's satire on modern Dublin

—— IRISH EXAMINER

Un-focking-missable

—— IN DUBLIN

Hilarious

—— SUNDAY WORLD

Strange and beautiful

—— The Times

Robert Chandler's tenderly attentive rendering of The Railway perfectly captures the dreamy, circling music of Hamid Ismailov's prose

—— Chandrahas Choudhury , Daily Telegraph

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

Anna Maxted tells a tale of sibling rivalry with wit and emotion

—— InStyle

Warm, poignant and very funny

—— Marian Keyes

Hugely funny. Maxted writes beautifully

—— Daily Express

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world

—— Sunday Sport

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