Brothers

About this book

An award-winning, wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.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.Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780307386069

Publisher

Anchor Books

Published

January 12, 2010

Pages

656

Weight

17.4 oz

Subject

Fiction