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YU HUA was born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China. He finished high school during the Cultural Revolution and worked as a dentist for five years before beginning to write in 1983. He has published four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. In 2002 Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. His novel To Live was awarded Italy's Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1998, and To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant were named two of... Read More
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Brothers
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $16.95
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Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $16.95
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Brothers
A Novel
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $29.95
A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France’s Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
Here is China as we’ve never seen it, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $29.95
A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France’s Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
Here is China as we’ve never seen it, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of... Read more >
Brothers
Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $29.95
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Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $29.95
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
One of the last decade’s ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland’s most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao.
A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood... Read more >
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
One of the last decade’s ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland’s most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao.
A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood... Read more >
Cries in the Drizzle
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $13.95
Yu Hua’s beautiful, heartbreaking novel Cries in the Drizzle follows a young Chinese boy throughout his childhood and adolescence during the reign of Chairman Mao.
The middle son of three, Sun Guanglin is constantly neglected ignored by his parents and his younger and older brother. Sent away at age six to... Read more >
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $13.95
Yu Hua’s beautiful, heartbreaking novel Cries in the Drizzle follows a young Chinese boy throughout his childhood and adolescence during the reign of Chairman Mao.
The middle son of three, Sun Guanglin is constantly neglected ignored by his parents and his younger and older brother. Sent away at age six to... Read more >
Cries in the Drizzle
Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $13.95
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Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $13.95
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To Live
A Novel
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $14.00
An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant.
After squandering his family’s fortune... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Yu Hua
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $14.00
An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant.
After squandering his family’s fortune... Read more >
To Live
A Novel
Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
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A Novel
Written by Yu Hua
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
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