《Yu Hua's Novels》 To Live + Brothers + Xu Sanguan Selling Blood + Shouting in the Rain Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Writers Publishing House

"Crying in the Rain" is a classic text from the 1990s and Yu Hua's first novel. The novel describes the growth experience and spiritual journey of a Jiangnan teenager. The structure of "Crying in the Rain" comes from the feeling of time, or more precisely, the feeling of time in memory. The narrator freely travels through the three time dimensions of the past, present and future, interweaving, gathering and piecing together the fragments of memory.

Yu Hua was born on April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He moved to Haiyan with his parents when he was 3 years old, and finished primary and secondary school in Haiyan. He worked as a dentist for 5 years. He started writing in 1983 and has completed 4 novels, 6 collections of short stories, and 3 collections of essays. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages ​​and published in nearly 30 countries. He has won the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Award (1998), the French Knight of Literature and Arts Medal (2004), the China Book Special Contribution Award (2005), the French International Courier Foreign Novel Award (2008), etc.