Three Brothers (ePub)
Memories of My Family
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the Franz Kafka Prize-winning author. "Full of love, sorrow, and tenderness... a deeply heartfelt account of his family in the 1960s and 70s." -Xiaolu Guo, award-winning author of Nine Continents
With lyricism and deep emotion, Yan Lianke chronicles...
With lyricism and deep emotion, Yan Lianke chronicles...
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From the Franz Kafka Prize-winning author. "Full of love, sorrow, and tenderness... a deeply heartfelt account of his family in the 1960s and 70s." -Xiaolu Guo, award-winning author of Nine Continents
With lyricism and deep emotion, Yan Lianke chronicles the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, as well as his own during the Cultural Revolution. 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.
"This engaging book asks readers to consider the nature of life and death, city versus country, and the impact generations can have on each other." -Winnipeg Free Press
With lyricism and deep emotion, Yan Lianke chronicles the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, as well as his own during the Cultural Revolution. 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.
"This engaging book asks readers to consider the nature of life and death, city versus country, and the impact generations can have on each other." -Winnipeg Free Press
Autoren-Porträt von Yan Lianke
Yan Lianke is the author of numerous story collections and novels, including The Day the Sun Died; The Years, Months, Days; The Explosion Chronicles; The Four Books; Lenin's Kisses; Serve the People!; and Dream of Ding Village. Among many accolades, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, he was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina Étranger. He has received two of China's most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Yan Lianke
- 2022, 260 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Carlos Rojas
- Verlag: Grove Press
- ISBN-10: 0802148093
- ISBN-13: 9780802148094
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.2022
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 2.64 MB
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