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 live with another family, he returns to his parents’ house six years later on the same night that their home burns to the ground, making him even more a black sheep. Yet Sun Guanglin’s status as an outcast, both at home and in his village, places him in a unique position to observe the changing nature of Chinese society, as social dynamics — and his very own family — are changed forever under Communist rule. With its moving, thoughtful prose, Cries in the Drizzle is a stunning addition to the wide-ranging work of one of China’s most distinguished contemporary writers.

Cries in the Drizzle

Literature & Fiction

Yu, Hua

Contemporary

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

To Live: A Novel

Anchor

Brothers

A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib.

Pan/Macmillan

When Baldy Li's mother marries Song Gang's father, the two boys become brothers. Although they are inseparable as children, their ambitions and personalities are very different, and become more, rather than less, pronounced as they grow into adulthood. Song Gang is thoughtful and serious; Baldy Li, meanwhile, is obsessed by sex (even before he fully understands what the act involves) and an unquenchable desire to make something of himself - for Baldy Li plans to become a man of the world, in all senses of the word. And although Baldy Li is a man who always (well, almost always) keeps his word, so too is his brother - but even here, their differences are obvious; for while Song Gang promises to put his brother first in everything they do, Baldy Li promises himself he will capture the heart of the town beauty, Lin Hong, who just happens to be the love of Song Gang's life. Set against the brutality and violence of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, Brothers is a novel about boys becoming men, about family feuds and the ties that bind all of us, even those who refuse to be bound by mere convention or custom - because they are bound for far greater glories...

Picador

From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of non-fiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the past several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic rise and social transformation. Framed by ten words or phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, "China in Ten Words" reveals as never before the world's most populous yet most often misunderstood nation. With Yu Hua's wit, insight and courage, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the 'Chinese miracle' and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a leading writer living in China today. Two of the author's novels were named in the Top Ten most influential books of the decade by Wen Hui Bao, Shanghai's biggest newspaper.

China in Ten Words. Yu Hua

Duckworth Publishing

From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of non-fiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic and social transformation. This is framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular "China in Ten Words" reveals as never before the world's most populous yet most often misunderstood nation. In "Disparity" Yu Hua illustrates the mind-boggling economic gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat" he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle" he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. With Yu Hua's characteristic wit, insight and courage, "China in Ten Words" is a refreshingly candid vision of the 'Chinese miracle' and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today.

China in Ten Words

History

Asia

Duckworth Overlook

'A brilliant memoir of China... beautifully narrated, carefully analytical and at times personally courageous.' Guardian A powerful, intimate look at the Chinese experience from the years of the Cultural Revolution to the present day, told through personal stories from one of China s most acclaimed authors. Framed by ten words and phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world s most populous yet often misunderstood nation. Characterised by Yu Hua's trademark wit, insight, and courage, he presents a refreshingly candid vision of the 'Chinese miracle' and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a leading writer living in China. Yu Hua is the author of four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2002, he became the first Chinese writer to win the James Joyce Award. To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant were named two of the past decade's ten most influential books in China by Wen Hui Bao, the largest newspaper in Shanghai. Yu Hua lives in Beijing.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Duckworth

To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Hua’s stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well. This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.

The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China, 10)

University of Hawaii Press

The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China) (Fiction from Modern China, 2)

余华时隔8年重磅新作！写《活着》的余华又回来了！人生就是自己的往事和他人的序章。关于一个人和他一生的寻找，以及一群人和一个汹涌的年代。 
余华 
作家，北京师范大学教授。 
1960年4月出生，1983年开始写作，主要作品有《兄弟》《活着》《许三观卖血记》《在细雨中呼喊》《第七天》等。其作品被翻译成40多种语言在40多个国家和地区出版，曾获意大利格林扎纳-卡佛文学奖（1998年）、法国文学和艺术骑士勋章（2004年）、法国国际信使外国小说奖（2008年）、意大利朱塞佩-阿切尔比国际文学奖（2014年）、塞尔维亚伊沃-安德里奇文学奖（2018年）、意大利波特利-拉特斯-格林扎纳文学奖（2018年）等。 
★时隔8年，余华全新长篇重磅归来！ 
◆人生就是自己的往事和他人的序章 
◆时代的洪流推着每个人做出各自的选择。 
这是一个荒蛮的年代，结束的尚未结束，开始的尚未开始。 
◆我们总是在不同时代、不同国家、不同语言的作家那里，读到自己的感受，甚至是自己的生活。假如文学中真的存在某些神秘的力量，我想可能就是这些。 
--余华 
★ 写《活着》的余华又回来了！这一回不止是时空上的突破 
◆故事背景设定在余华之前的作品少有着墨的清末民初，上溯至《活着》之前那个更荒蛮残酷的时代，也展现了从北至南更广阔的地理空间。绵延的时空、纷杂的人物群像，跌宕起伏、引人入胜的故事情节，共同构成了一幅荡气回肠的时代画卷。 
◆承续民间叙事的风格，不动声色地融入魔幻色彩，从不同视角讲述了镇上的居民林祥福、纪小美以及与他们相连的各色人物的爱恨悲欢，颠沛起伏的人生故事牵引出军阀混战、匪祸泛滥的时代之殇。 
◆细腻而宏大，舒畅而勇猛，夹杂着独特的黑色幽默，谱写一曲荒诞悲怆的关于命运的史诗。 
★ 余华亲自选定封面插画 
◆封面插画来自当代艺术家张晓刚作品《失忆与记忆：男人》，风格独特，意蕴广远。 
【张晓刚，中国当代艺术家。擅长在作品中表现当代中国的集体记忆与情绪，代表作有《大家庭》系列、《失忆与记忆》系列等。曾获亚洲协会年度杰出艺术家奖、都灵艺术学院年度艺术家奖等多个奖项及荣誉。】 
内容简介 
关于一个人和他一生的寻找 
以及一群人和一个汹涌的年代 
........................................................................ 
"文城在哪里？" 
"总会有一个地方叫文城。" 
◆在溪镇人ZUI初的印象里，林祥福是一个身上披戴雪花，头发和胡子遮住脸庞的男人，有着垂柳似的谦卑和田地般的沉默寡言。哪怕后来成了万亩荡和木器社的主人，他身上的谦卑和沉默依旧没有变。他的过去和一座谜一样的城联系在了一起，没人知道他为什么要找一个不存在的地方。 
他原本不属于这里，他的家乡在遥远的北方。为了一个承诺他将自己连根拔起，漂泊至此。往后的日子，他见识过温暖赤诚的心，也见识过冰冷无情的血。ZUI终他徒劳无获，但许多人的牵挂和眼泪都留在了他身上。

文城

World Literature

Shiguang

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Cries in the Drizzle

To Live: A Novel

Brothers

Brothers

China in Ten Words. Yu Hua

China in Ten Words

China in Ten Words

The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China, 10)

The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China) (Fiction from Modern China, 2)

文城