From one of China's most highly regarded writers, winner of the
Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker
Prize, Three Brothers is a beautiful and heartwrenching memoir of
the author's childhood and family life during the Cultural
Revolution In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings
the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan
Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and
'70s. Three Brothers is a literary testament to the great humanity
and small joys that exist even in times of darkness. With lyricism
and deep emotion, Yan chronicles the extraordinary lives of his
father and uncles, as well as his own. Living in a remote village,
Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat
flour on New Year and festival days, and while Yan dreams of fried
scallion buns, and even steals from his father to buy sesame seed
cakes. He yearns to leave the village, however he can, and soon
novels become an escape. He resolves to become a writer himself
after reading on the back of a novel that its author was given
leave to remain in the city of Harbin after publishing her book. In
the evenings, after finishing back-breaking shifts hauling stones
at a cement factory, sometimes sixteen hours long, he sets to work
writing. He is ultimately delivered from the drudgery and danger of
manual labor by a career in the Army, but he is filled with regrets
as he recalls these years of scarcity, turmoil, and poverty. A
philosophical portrait of grief, death, home, and fate that gleams
with Yan's quick wit and gift for imagery, Three Brothers is a
personal portrait of a politically devastating period, and a
celebration of the power of the family to hold together even in the
harshest circumstances.
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