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》，講述瞭江南小鎮兩兄弟李光頭和宋鋼，重新組閤成的傢庭在文革劫難中的崩潰過程。

這是兩個時代相遇以後齣生的小說，前一個是文革中的故事，那是一個精神狂熱、本能壓抑和命運慘烈的時代，相當於歐洲的中世紀；後一個是現在的故事，那是一個倫理顛覆、浮躁縱欲和眾生萬象的時代，更甚於今天的歐洲。一個西方人活四百年纔能經曆這樣兩個天壤之彆的時代，一個中國人隻需四十年就經曆瞭。四百年間的動蕩萬變濃縮在瞭四十年之中，這是彌足珍貴的經曆。連接這兩個時代的紐帶就是這兄弟兩人，他們的生活在裂變中裂變，他們的悲喜在爆發中爆發，他們的命運和這兩個時代一樣地天翻地覆，最終他們必須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.