# The Good Woman of Setzuan

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- Book: [The Good Woman of Setzuan](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertolt-brecht/the-good-woman-of-setzuan) ([The Good Woman of Setzuan.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertolt-brecht/the-good-woman-of-setzuan.md))
- Authors: [Bertold Brecht](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertolt-brecht)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-917-8
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2007-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.