Brothers A Novel |
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| Author:
| Hua, Yu |
| Translator:
| Chow, Eileencheng-Yin
Rojas, Carlos |
| ISBN: | 978-0-307-38606-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Anchor |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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A bestseller in China,
Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. nbsp; Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of
To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy...
More DescriptionA bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
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Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers--a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China.
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Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.