余华

《兄弟》讲述了江南小镇两兄弟李光头和宋钢的人生。李光头的父亲不怎么光彩地意外身亡，而同一天李光头出生。宋钢的父亲宋凡平在众人的嘲笑声中挺身而出，帮助了李光头的母亲李兰，被后者视为恩人。几年后宋钢的母亲也亡故，李兰和宋凡平在互相帮助中相爱并结婚，虽然这场婚姻遭到了镇上人们的鄙夷和嘲弄，但两人依然相爱甚笃，而李光头和宋钢这对没有血缘关系的兄弟也十分投缘。 李兰去上海看病，而“文革”开始，宋凡平遭受了极其残酷的虐待，但他坚持给病中的妻子写信，隐瞒了事实真相，用想像出的美好生活欺骗着妻子，但最终仍然逃脱不了惨死的命运。李兰为宋凡平守孝，7年不洗头，而李光头和宋钢则在相互照顾中成长……

5, 167 p. ; 22 cm

5, 152 p. ; 22 cm

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. This is the first collection short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.

这是一部精妙绝伦的小说,作者以极大的温情描绘了磨难中的人生,以激烈的形式表达了人在面对厄运时求生的欲望.

An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade's ten most influential books there," "To Live tells the epic story of one man's transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family's fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Civil War, only to return years later to face a string of hardships brought on by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution. Left with an ox as the companion of his final years, Fugui stands as a model of flinty authenticity, buoyed by his appreciation for life in this narrative of humbling power.

"Stories previously published in different magazines in Chinese, but never as a collection" --

Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this new account of the Kennedy years, David Talbot explains why - even on 22 November 1963 - RFK had reason to believe that dark forces were at work in Dallas.

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, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he's lost.

Uses a framework of ten common phrases in the Chinese vernacular to offer insight into China's modern economic gaps, cultural transformations, and ubiquitous practices of deception.