To Live Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House

【Content Introduction】

To Live is a representative work of contemporary writer Yu Hua. It tells the story of a person's life full of vicissitudes and hardships, and also condenses the social changes in China over half a century. To Live also tells the story of the breadth and richness of tears; the non-existence of despair; and the story of how people live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than living.

In the 25 years since its publication, To Live has touched countless readers. After years of precipitation, it has become a well-deserved classic of 20th century Chinese literature. To date, it has been translated into more than 30 countries and regions including England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Russia, and has won many literary awards at home and abroad. Yu Hua also won the French Order of Arts and Knight of Culture in 2004 for this work.

Revised and republished 25 years later, I believe that "To Live" will still touch the hearts of each of us with its spiritual core that transcends time and space.

【Awards】

Italy's highest literary award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize

Taiwan's "China Times" Top Ten Books Award

Asia Weekly's Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century

【Media Recommendation】

All the disasters that have happened in China over the past sixty years have happened to Fugui and his family. The blows that have come one after another may make readers unable to sympathize, but Yu Hua's sincere writing has shaped Fugui into a hero of existence. When this heavy novel ends, the will to live is something that cannot be taken away from Fugui. --Time Magazine, USA

Yu Hua's works can be compared to the style of Kafka and Borges. This is his way of fighting against reality. ——Spanish Daily

This is a great work of art, because the author narrates the incredible and difficult history with such compassion, which can comfort people, because the comfort we get from the peasant Fugui is a wonderful feeling... The value of this book cannot be described by any words of commentary, and the word "great" seems insignificant in front of this book. - Berlin Daily, Germany

This touching story of Chinese life is convincing because of the impressive language and colorful pictures of the ancient culture. The hero's courage in life against the backdrop of brutal social and political changes is surprising: this is a special novel, a heart-shaking novel that will move both younger and older readers. - Schweizer Bibliothekdienst, Switzerland

Yu Hua

Born in April 1960, he worked as a dentist for 5 years. He started writing in 1983. His major works include To Live, Xu Sanguan Selling Blood, Shouting in the Rain, Brothers, The Seventh Day, etc. His works have been translated into 35 languages ​​and published in 37 countries and regions including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Japan. He has won the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Award (1998), the French Knight of Literature and Arts Medal (2004), the French International Courier Foreign Novel Award (2008), the Italian Giuseppe Acerbi International Literature Award (2014), etc.