{"title":"Yu Hua","description":"YU HUA is the author of five novels, six story collections, and four essay collections. He has also contributed op-ed pieces to The New York Times. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He is the recipient of many awards, including the James Joyce Award, France's Prix Courrier International, and Italy's Premio Grinzane Cavour. He lives in Beijing.","products":[{"product_id":"city-of-fiction-hardcover","title":"City of Fiction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA story of love, blood and dreams, set in early 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century China\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 child's mother and a city that isn't there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, it's a story about change and about storytelling itself, full of vivid characters, ranging from bandits to vengeful potentates, from prostitutes to deceitful soothsayers, and surprising twists--an epic tale, as inexorable as time itself and as gripping as a classic adventure story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103152967903,"sku":"9798889660934","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D3isp5AaVE9798889660934.webp?v=1781090388"},{"product_id":"brothers-paperback","title":"Brothers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bestseller in China, \u003ci\u003eBrothers\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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 \u003ci\u003eTo Live\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth tragic and absurd by turns, \u003ci\u003eBrothers\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104486133983,"sku":"9780307386069","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BRXEs-t98I9780307386069.webp?v=1781108415"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/yu-hua.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}