Yu Hua | Brothers

    Yu Hua | Brothers

    Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia at Free Library of Philadelphia - Independence Branch

    March 25, 2009


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    A million-copy bestseller upon its publication in China, Yu Hua's Brothers encapsulates the story of modern China, offering a satirical and compassionate portrait of life after Mao. The story of two stepbrothers, Baldy Li (talkative, outgoing and sex-obsessed) and Song Gang (quiet and bookish), Brothers depicts the acceleration of slow-paced village life into high-tech modernity as everyone scrambles to get rich and famous in the decades following the Cultural Revolution. The Boston Globe calls Brothers a book full of ''mind-bending moments ... both ribald and elegiac ... a satire, but also a rebuke of how China, in its breathless pursuit of success, has compromised its soul.''

    Yu Hua is the author of thirteen books including To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, named two of the last decade's ten most influential books in China. In 2002 he became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award.


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        Free Library of Philadelphia - Independence Branch

        18 S. 7th Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19106

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        Dates:
        March 25, 2009

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        6:30 pm

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