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Books by Yu Hua
  | | China in Ten Words by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-73979-7, ISBN: 0-307-73979-1 "From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction 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. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular—“people,” “leader,” “reading,” “writing,” “Lu Xun” (one of the most influent ..." |
 | | Brothers(9th Edition) A Novel by Yu Hua, Carlos Rojas, Eileencheng-Yin Chow, Cheng-Yin Chow Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 2010 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38606-9, ISBN: 0-307-38606-6 "A bestseller in China, "Brothers" is an epic and 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 mismatch ..." |
 | | Chronicle of a Blood Merchant(Reprint) by Yu Hua, Andrew F. Jones Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3185-6, ISBN: 1-4000-3185-0 "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 chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height ..." |
 | | To Live(7th Edition) A Novel by Yu Hua, Michael Berry Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3186-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3186-9 "From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. This searing novel, originally banned in China but later named one of that nation’s most influential books, portrays one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, dee ..." |
 | | The Seventh Day(Reprint) A Novel (Vintage International) by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2016 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-7205-9, ISBN: 0-8041-7205-6 "Yang Fei was born on a train as it raced across the Chinese countryside. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At forty-one, he meets an unceremonious death, and lacking the money ..." |
 | | Cries in the Drizzle(1st Edition) by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27999-6, ISBN: 0-307-27999-5 "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, ma ..." |
 | | Boy in the Twilight Stories of the Hidden China by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-7102-1, ISBN: 0-8041-7102-5 "Yu Hua’s populist voice and exquisite wit have made him one of the most celebrated and bestselling writers in China. These visceral, flawlessly crafted stories explore the line between cruelty and warmth on which his country is precariously balanced. In the title story, a shopkeeper confronts a child thief and punishes him without mercy. “Victory” shows a young couple shaken by the husband’s infidelity, each scrambling to stake ..." |
 | | The April 3rd Incident Stories by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4706-0, ISBN: 1-5247-4706-8 "From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional ..." |
 | | China in Ten Words by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-307-37935-1, ISBN: 0-307-37935-3 "From one of China''s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction 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. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacularâ€"“people," “leader," “reading," “writing," “Lu Xun" (one of the most inf ..." |
 | | Brothers(1st Edition) A Novel by Yu Hua, Carlos Rojas, Eileen Cheng-Yin Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2009 by Pantheon Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42499-1, ISBN: 0-375-42499-7 "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 rough-and-rumble Chinese history that has already scandalized millions of readers in the author’s homeland. Yu Hua, award- ..." |
 | | Chronicle of a Blood Merchant(1st Edition) A Novel by Yu Hua, Andrew F. Jones Hardcover, 263 Pages, Published 2003 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42220-1, ISBN: 0-375-42220-X "A soaring literary achievement from internationally acclaimed writer Yu Hua, whose novels are now appearing in English for the first time, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant provides an unflinching portrait of China under Chairman Mao, as a factory worke must sell his blood to overcome every crisis.Xu Sanguan is a Chinese everyman—a cart-pusher in a silk mill struggling under the cruelty and hardships of Mao’s leadership. His meager salary i ..." |
 | | Boy in the Twilight Stories of the Hidden China by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-307-37936-8, ISBN: 0-307-37936-1 "From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: thirteen audacious stories that resonate with the beauty, grittiness, and exquisite irony of everyday life in China. Yu Hua’s narrative gifts, populist voice, and inimitable wit have made him one of the most celebrated and best-selling writers in China. These flawlessly crafted stories—unflinching in their honesty, yet balanced with humor and compassion—take us into the small towns and ..." |
 | | The April 3rd Incident(Reprint) Stories (Paperback or Softback) by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43562-4, ISBN: 0-525-43562-X "From one of China's most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua's early work, that shows his far-reaching ..." |
 | | The Seventh Day(Reprint) A Novel by Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-9786-1, ISBN: 0-8041-9786-5 "From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of life in contemporary China. Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, ..." |
 | | The Past and the Punishments(96th Edition) Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China) by Yu Hua, Andrew F. Jones, Howard Goldblatt, Hua Yü Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 1996 by Ateneo De Manila Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-1817-3, ISBN: 0-8248-1817-2 "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 revolutio ..." |
 | | The April 3rd Incident Stories by Yu Hua 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4707-7, ISBN: 1-5247-4707-6 "Later, as the rain grew heavier, Gu Lin and the others had accosted him. It happened here, by the dying plane tree. ... “We'll let you off if you just admit you were fabricating rumors,” Chen Gang said. “The monitor reading has been normal the ..." |
 | | Boy in the Twilight Stories of the Hidden China by Yu Hua 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90864-3, ISBN: 0-307-90864-X "When I passed Hu Qiang's place, I heard Song Hai and the others shout, “Hu Qiang! Hu Qiang! Hu Qiang!” They were going to follow me the whole way, I realized. The result was that when I reached Lü Qianjin's house, there were five people with me: Song Hao, Fang Dawei, Liu Jisheng, Hu Qiang, and Xu Hao. Laughing gaily, they pushed me inside. Lü Qianjin sat at the table clutching a big slice of watermelon; some seeds were stuck to his ..." |
 | | China in Ten Words by Yu Hua Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-4551-2, ISBN: 0-7156-4551-X "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. This is a refreshingly candid vision of the 'Chin ..." |
 | | China in Ten Words (Hardcover) by Yu Hua Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-4326-6, ISBN: 0-7156-4326-6 "China in Ten Words Looks 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. Full description" |
 | | Brs by Yu Hua Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 2010 by Picador Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-330-45275-5, ISBN: 0-330-45275-4 "From the acclaimed - and controversial - Chinese novelist, "Brothers" is a big-spirited comedy of society running amok in modern China. When Baldy Li's mother marries Song Gang's father their lives become entangled. Then when both their parents die, Song Gang swears never to forsake his younger brother. In the event, though, both are undone by their love for one woman. Sprawling, rambunctious, energetic and brutal, Brothers is a dizzyin ..." |
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