From the acclaimed author of Brothers and China in Ten Words here is Yu Huas unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cartpusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover that his favorite son was actually born of a liaison between his wife and a neighbor, he suffers his greatest indignity, while his wife is publicly scorned as a prostitute. Although the poverty and betrayals of Maos regime have drained him, Xu Sanguan ultimately finds strength in the blood ties of his family. With rare emotional intensity, grippingly raw descriptions of place and time, and cleareyed compassion, Yu Hua gives us a stunning tapestry of human life in the grave particulars of one mans days.

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 358 g; Dimensions: 203 x 132 x 21

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