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"To Live (Paperback)" Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Writers Publishing House
"To Live (Paperback)" Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Writers Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"To Live (New Edition)" tells the tragic life experience of Fugui, a rural man. Fugui was originally a rich young man, but he was addicted to gambling and finally gambled away his family property and became penniless. His father was angered to death by him, and his mother became seriously ill in poverty. Fugui went to seek medicine, but was captured by the Kuomintang on the way to serve as a soldier. After several twists and turns, he returned home and found out that his mother had passed away long ago. His wife Jiazhen raised their two children with great difficulty. After that, a more tragic fate befell Fugui again and again. His wife, children and grandson died one after another. In the end, only Fugui and an old cow were left to depend on each other, but the old man was still alive, as if he was more free and strong than before.
"To Live (New Edition)" won the highest award of Italy's Grinzane Cavour Literature Award (1998), Taiwan's "China Times" 10 Good Books Award (1994), Hong Kong's "Bo Yi" 15 Good Books Award (1994), the 3rd World Chinese "Bing Xin Literature Award" (2002), and was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Hong Kong's "Asia Weekly" and one of the "10 Most Influential Works of the 1990s" selected by 100 Chinese critics and literary editors.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Yu Hua was born in 1960 and started writing in 1983. He has published 4 novels, 6 collections of short stories and 4 collections of essays. His major works include Brothers, To Live, Xu Sanguan Selling Blood and Shouting in the Rain. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and published in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Poland, Brazil, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and India. He has won the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Prize (1998), the French Knight of the Order of Literature and Arts (2004), the Special Contribution Award for Chinese Books (2005), the French International Courier Foreign Novel Award (2008), etc.
