To Live by Yu Hua, translated by Michael Berry [in AsianWeek]
26 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation
Originally banned in China, To Live was the basis for the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner of the same name, directed by grandmaster Zhang Yimou. A surprisingly slim volume, To Live tells...
An almost comic tale about an immature, overprivileged, married professor who falls in love with a much younger woman on her wedding day, set on the eve of the horrific Rape of Nanjing when...