Brother

★Yu Hua's favorite work
-A truly great and captivating novel
★Some people live, toiling through life and death; others live, unrestrained and free.
★Winner of the French Courrier International Award for Foreign Novels
-One of the Top Ten Chinese Novels by Asiaweek
- One of the Best Global Works of the New Millennium by Swiss Le Temps
- One of the Hundred Best Novels after World War II by French Le Monde
★Sharp and fierce, magnificent and squalid, a tear-jerking and hilarious epic of ordinary people
-When absurdity goes to the extreme, it becomes reality.
★Brand new binding, grand release!
★"Brothers" displays the full spectrum of human emotions — from vulgarity, fanaticism, and opportunism to love and inner greatness, almost everything is encompassed within it. In this microcosm, no one is isolated, and there is no privacy whatsoever; stories of courtship and shame, pain or death openly unfold on the streets, making the novel itself a global theater. — Neue Zürcher Zeitung
★Yu Hua's portrayal of contemporary Chinese society, in its sharpness and savagery, is unmatched. — Time Magazine
★Despite being over six hundred pages long, it is captivating and engrossing. Li Guangtou's violent life force already foreshadows tragedy, a sweating, fanged monster seems to have emerged from the mythical world. This is a great, soiled work, undoubtedly comparable to the masterpieces of Zola, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Rabelais. — Kirkus Reviews
【Synopsis】
"Brothers" tells the story of two brothers, Li Guangtou and Song Gang, in a small town in southern China.
This is a novel born when two eras met, and the bond connecting these two eras is these two brothers. Their lives fractured within a great upheaval, their joys and sorrows erupted within an explosion, and their destinies, like these two eras, were turned upside down.
"Even if everything is turned upside down with generous spirit, we are still brothers."
Li Guangtou is a mischievous demon, and I like this character. I like his richness and complexity; this character has intricate ties with our era, one could say he is a product of our times. Song Gang is a "tragedy of conscience." He was always someone else's shadow, first Li Guangtou's shadow, then Lin Hong's shadow, and finally he became independent, but headed towards death.
— Yu Hua

2022-07-01

北京十月文艺出版社

New Classic Culture

668

9787530222324