To Live

Name: To Live
Author: Yu Hua

by Yu Hua

Novel chronicling family's survival through decades of Chinese upheaval

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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.

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