Yu Hua

Una de las obras más importantes de la literatura china contemporánea. Una celebración de la fuerza de la vida.Después de gastar toda la fortuna de su familia en el juego y en burdeles, el joven Fugui, unico heredero de la familia Xu, no tiene otra solucion que convertirse en un honesto granjero. Obligado por el Ejercito a separarse de su familia, es testigo de los horrores de la Guerra Civil. Años despues, tiene que hacer frente a las penurias de la Revolucion Cultural. Con un buey como unico compañero en sus ultimos dias, Fugui consigue sobrevivir gracias a su amor por la vida. Esta novela celebra la inalterable voluntad de vivir por encima de las desgracias y los golpes del destino.

From one of Chinas 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 countrys meteoric economic and social transformation. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacularpeople, leader, reading, writing, Lu Xun (one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century), disparity, revolution, grassroots, copycat, and bamboozleChina in Ten Words reveals as never before the worlds most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In Disparity, for example, 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. Characterized by Yu Huas trademark 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.

Mientras un imperio milenario se desmorona en China, un hombre inicia un viaje inolvidable marcado por el destino, el amor y la sangre.«Una historia de amor y sacrificio... un reflejo crudo de una ép

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 for a burial plot, must roam the afterworld aimlessly. There, over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of people hes lost. As he retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters: his adoptive father, his beautiful ex-wife, his neighbors who perished in the demolition of their homes. Vivid, urgent, and panoramic, Yang Feis passage movingly traces the contours of his vast nationits absurdities, its sorrows, and its soul. This searing novel affirms Yu Huas place as the standard-bearer of Chinese fiction.

From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of modern Chinaa deeply resonant contemporary fable, written with the author''s hallmark sophisticated yet bawdy humor and piercing eye for the telling detail.Yang Fei was born on a moving train, lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and loveutterly 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. At forty-one, he meets an unceremonious death, and lacking the money for a burial plot, must roam the afterworld aimlessly. There, over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of people he''s lost, and as he retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters: his adoptive father, beautiful ex-wife, neighbors who perished in the demolition of their homes. Vivid, urgent, and panoramic, Yang Fei''s passage movingly traces the contours of his vast nationits absurdities, its sorrows, and its soul. This searing novel affirms Yu Hua''s place as the standard-bearer of Chinese fiction.

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.

Le Septième Jour propose une méditation sur le destin et sur le sens de la mort en même temps qu’une critique sociale et politique de la Chine d’aujourd’hui. Où en plus de l’humour, de l’émotion et d

Le Septième Jour propose une méditation sur le destin et sur le sens de la mort en même temps qu’une critique sociale et politique de la Chine d’aujourd’hui. Où en plus de l’humour, de l’émotion et d

Cinq longues nouvelles des débuts du grand écrivain chinois ; cinq courts romans qui creusent ce qui s’imposera comme le thème central de l’œuvre de Yu Hua : celui du destin et de la possibilité ou n

Cinq longues nouvelles des débuts du grand écrivain chinois ; cinq courts romans qui creusent ce qui s’imposera comme le thème central de l’œuvre de Yu Hua : celui du destin et de la possibilité ou n

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 - 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...

From one of Chinas most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction available in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last thirty years, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate his countrys meteoric transformation...

"Due fratelli crescono in un mondo che suona loro incomprensibile come bambini e intollerabile agli adulti: la cittadina di Liuzhen e sconvolta dalla Rivoluzione culturale. La follia non ha limiti, ha un colore, pero, il rosso delle bandiere, delle spillette di Mao e del sangue. Yu Hua racconta una storia palpitante che sgretola l''idea grigia di collettivita come una massa indistinta, inscenando una commedia tutta cinese e una tragedia umana disarmante. Brothers e un mondo che travolge e risucchia, dove l''orrore piu osceno si stempera nella risata piu liberatoria e le passioni che fanno grandi gli uomini coesistono con le loro piccolezze. "

"L''avventura dei due fratelli continua. Nella seconda parte di Brothers,Yu Hua disegna l''epopea di milioni di persone, cresciute sotto la bandiera rossa e catapultate nella Cina moderna, dove ""arricchirsi e glorioso"", che sia vendendo immondizia, imeni artificiali marca Giovanna d''Arco o se stessi. Si parte dagli anni ottanta, quando ancora si suda per conquistarsi una bicicletta Forever o un orologio Diamante. Poi, in un lampo, siamo a oggi: l''ex stracci-vendolo Li Testapelata, ora arcimiliardario presidente Li, puo decidere di fare un giro nello spazio o di radere al suolo un''antica citta per costruire la sua nuova Liuzhen, tutta centri commerciali, luci al neon e palazzi svettanti. Il prezzo del successo, pero, e un consumismo che corrode tutto, anche i legami che la Rivoluzione culturale con le sue aberrazioni aveva contribuito a saldare. I fratelli si separano, le famiglie si sfaldano, gli ingenui soccombono e chi sopravvive deve fare i conti con ""una desolazione incommensurabile"". "

Clairvoyant, lucide, tendre, parfois ironique, toujours dénué de complaisance nationaliste, tel est le regard de lauteur de "Brothers" sur son pays. Témoin dun demi-siècle dhistoire chinoise, Yu Hua

Clairvoyant, lucide, tendre, parfois ironique, toujours dénué de complaisance nationaliste, tel est le regard de lauteur de "Brothers" sur son pays. Témoin dun demi-siècle dhistoire chinoise, Yu Hua

"Engrossing. a terrifically entertaining novel."--Irish TimesIn the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and cultural shift, with a thousand-year-old empire crumbling and the nation on the brink of modernity. Against this backdrop, a quiet man from the North embarks on a perilous journey to a Southern city in the grip of a savage snowstorm. He carries with him a newborn baby: he is looking for the childs mother and a city that isnt there.This is a story of two people: a man who finds unexpected success after having journeyed to the hometown of the woman who abandoned him; and the woman he is searching for, who mysteriously disappeared to embark on her own eventful journey. This is a story about vanished crafts and ancient customs, about violence, love, and friendship. Above all, its a story about change and about storytelling itself, full of vivid characters and surprising twistsan epic tale, as inexorable as time itself and as gripping as a classic adventure story.

In China, an old man looks back on his life, recalling when he was a prisoner of war after WW II, his survival of the Cultural Revolution, and his present life as a smalltime farmer dependent on his beloved ox. Originally published in 1993, this novel by a celebrated Chinese writer was made into a successful film.

En China en diez palabras, Yu Hua ofrece una colección de miniaturas en las que se concentra una vivencia de China. Cada capítulo -breve y concentrado- es la definición de una palabra, pero, al contrario que en una enciclopedia, el autor no se propone acotar un significado, sino más bien dibujar el paisaje en el que cierta palabra encuentra su lugar propio. China en diez palabras es un libro pensado para ser leído por occidentales: contiene amplias explicaciones de cosas que para un chino deben de ser moneda corriente; el lector, sin embargo, presiente algunos guiños, referencias llamadas a resonar sólo entre chinos. Así, la ironía aporta profundidad: nos hace presentir el tamaño de lo que ignoramos.

Une histoire d’amour au seuil des années 1930 dans une Chine peuplée de brigands qui pillent villes et villages, tuent et torturent les populations. Un livre où la barbarie côtoie la bonté et la loya