Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China. He finished high school during the Cultural Revolution and worked as a dentist for five years before beginning to write in 1983. He has published four novels, six collections of stories, and three essays collections. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. In 2002 Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. His novel To Live was awarded Italy’s Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1998, and To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant were named two of the last decade’s ten most influential books in China. Yu Hua lives in Beijing. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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《兄弟》，讲述了江南小镇两兄弟李光头和宋钢，重新组合成的家庭在文革劫难中的崩溃过程。

这是两个时代相遇以后出生的小说，前一个是文革中的故事，那是一个精神狂热、本能压抑和命运惨烈的时代，相当于欧洲的中世纪；后一个是现在的故事，那是一个伦理颠覆、浮躁纵欲和众生万象的时代，更甚于今天的欧洲。一个西方人活四百年才能经历这样两个天壤之别的时代，一个中国人只需四十年就经历了。四百年间的动荡万变浓缩在了四十年之中，这是弥足珍贵的经历。连接这两个时代的纽带就是这兄弟两人，他们的生活在裂变中裂变，他们的悲喜在爆发中爆发，他们的命运和这两个时代一样地天翻地覆，最终他们必须恩怨交集地自食其果。

A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France’s Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.

Here is China as we’ve never seen it, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history that has already scandalized millions of readers in the author’s homeland. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live , gives us a surreal tale of two brothers riding the dizzying roller coaster of life in a newly capitalist world. As comically mismatched teenagers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne’er-do-well, and Song Gang, his bookish, sensitive stepbrother, vow that they will always be brothers--a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China. Their tribulations play out across a richly populated backdrop that is every bit as vibrant: the rapidly-changing village of Liu Town, full of such lively characters as the self-important Poet Zhao, the craven dentist Yanker Yu, the virginal town beauty (turned madam) Lin Hong, and the simpering vendor Popsicle Wang.

With sly and biting humor, combined with an insightful and compassionate eye for the lives of ordinary people, Yu Hua shows how the madness of the Cultural Revolution has transformed into the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a monumental spectacle and a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.