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  • To Live

    A Novel

    by Yu Hua ...
    **Originally banned in China but later named one of that nation’s most influential books, a searing novel that portrays one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant.“A work of astounding emotional power.” —Dai Sijie, author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress**From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: this celebrated contemporary classic of ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Brothers

    A Novel

    by Yu Hua ...
    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 ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Seventh Day

    A Novel

    by Yu Hua ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • China in Ten Words

    Essays

    by Yu Hua ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    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,” ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

    by Yu Hua ...
    From the acclaimed author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: here is Yu Hua’s 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 of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Cries in the Drizzle

    by Yu Hua ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Boy in the Twilight

    Stories of the Hidden China

    by Yu Hua ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    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 ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    China in Ten Words

    by Yu Hua ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    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,” ... Read more

    $29.98 USD

  • The April 3rd Incident

    Stories

    by Yu Hua ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • City of Fiction

    by Yu Hua ...
    A story of love, blood and dreams, set in early 20th century ChinaIn 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Memory Systems

    by Yu Hua ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book presents groundbreaking research schemes that are shaping the future of big memory systems. Large-scale persistent and byte-addressable memory eliminates traditional storage bottlenecks by unifying memory and storage hierarchies. For engineers and architects building next-generation databases and distributed systems, these innovations deliver transformative performance: faster persistent ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    The April 3rd Incident

    Stories

    by Yu Hua ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    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 ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook