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Women whistle and hens crow, blaspheming God and causing harm to men. According to legend, there is a group of women who have never left the valley. They longed to see the true dangers of speed, wind, snow and darkness, but they were cursed and turned into half-man, half-bird monsters forever. In reality, Frederica, who got out of her marriage, saw a broader intellectual world in her new job as a program host, but she hesitated to give up her job and return to the small town for her lover. In the turbulent 1960s, women began to think about how women could gain complete freedom and independence under the multiple pressures of career and family. On top of myths and fables, the author Byatt has built a temple of knowledge: literature, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, psychology, genetics, biology... This intellectually shining world illuminates the abandoned dreams, tempted compromises, and suppressed selves in reality, and writes about the privacy of free women and the true meaning of independence.
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