A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black
comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian
panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the
madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of
extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us
a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a
sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who
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.
Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of
an extraordinary place and time.