Yu Hua
Avant-garde novelist whose career moved from experimental metafiction to socially panoramic realism. To Live is a devastating novel of twentieth-century Chinese history seen through the losses of an ordinary peasant family.
Works
- To LiveNovel chronicling family's survival through decades of Chinese upheaval
- Chronicle of a Blood MerchantNovel exploring moral compromise of blood merchant under totalitarian regime
- BrothersEpic family saga spanning decades of transformation in rural China
- China in Ten WordsTen thematic essays exploring modern Chinese culture and national identity
- Cries in the DrizzleNovel following a boy and girl growing up amid China's turbulent history