Women, Seated
Translated by Jeremy Tiang
About
An elite Chinese couple — wealthy, powerful, accustomed to being served — watches their privileged world unravel when the family's trusted nanny becomes the fulcrum of a crisis that exposes every fault line in their marriage, their class, and their assumptions about who owes what to whom. Zhang Yueran seats her characters at a table where the power dynamics are about to shift. The novel dissects contemporary Chinese wealth with the precision of a social autopsy, using the domestic space — the apartment, the dinner table, the nursery — as the stage for a larger drama about inequality, dependence, and the violence of being served. A novel about who sits and who stands — and the moment the people seated realize the ones standing have been watching all along.
