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\"Brothers<\/a>Author of bestselling memoirs Colors of the Mountain<\/em> and Sounds of the River<\/em>, Da Chen debuts his first novel for adults. The sprawling saga, set in late-20th-century China, follows the inevitably intertwined lives of two brothers born of two mothers, one into privilege and luxury, the other into deprivation and poverty. Their paths inevitably cross, complicated and heightened by the brothers\u2019 love for the same woman.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “TBR<\/em>‘s Contributing Editors’ Favorite Reads of 2006: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things … in Print, That Is …,” The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2006<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

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\"brothers1\"Author of bestselling memoirs Colors of the Mountain<\/em> and Sounds of the River<\/em>, Da Chen debuts his first novel for adults. The sprawling saga, set in late-20th-century China, follows the inevitably intertwined lives of two brothers born of two mothers, one into privilege and luxury, the other into deprivation and poverty. Their paths inevitably cross, complicated and heightened by the brothers\u2019 love for the same woman.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “TBR<\/em>‘s Contributing Editors’ Favorite Reads of 2006: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things … in Print, That Is …,” The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2006<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

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