Boy in the Twilight

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From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live thirteen audacious stories that resonate with the beauty, grittiness, and exquisite irony of everyday life in China Yu Hua s narrative gifts, populist voice, and inimitable wit have made him one of the most celebrated and best selling writers in China These flawlessly crafted stories unflinching in their honesty, yet balanced with humor and compassion take us into the small towns and dirt roads that are home to the people who make China run In the title story, a shopkeeper confronts a child thief and punishes him without mercy Victory shows a young couple shaken by the husband s infidelity, scrambling to stake claims to the components of their shared life Sweltering Summer centers on an awkward young man who shrewdly uses the perks of his government position to court two women at once Other tales show, by turns, two poor factory workers who spoil their only son, a gang of peasants who bully the village orphan, and a spectacular fistfight outside a refinery bathhouse With sharp language and a keen eye, Yu Hua explores the line between cruelty and warmth on which modern China is precariously, joyfully balanced Taken together, these stories form a timely snapshot of a nation lit with the deep feeling and ready humor that characterize its people Already a sensation in Asia, certain to win recognition around the world, Yu Hua, in Boy in the Twilight, showcases the peerless gifts of a writer at the top of his form. Best Download Boy in the Twilight Author Yu Hua For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr It took me a long time to read this book.It took me a long time to read this book because this collection of short stories has parts that are so unimaginably cruel, I had to put it down His characters are not just unkind, they are callous, cold blooded and bestial.Hua s writing is unflinchingly honest, wrought part with disaster, part satire and the darkest kind of humour I can imagine Often, when authors are writing unlikeable characters, the reader can sometimes feel they re doing it to be e It took me a long time to read this book.It took me a long time to read this book because this coll...Yu Hua is an international treasure This collection of short fiction showcases his masterful ability to spin decades of history national, and personal to individuals, families, communities into a few pages, paragraphs, even one sentence My favorite, Appendix, perhaps captures his greatest gift deliv...The short stories felt authentic and true, yet disturbing Authentic in that they describe real events and real lives of regular people Disturbing in that they are cruel, violent, and sadLove the short stories interesting narratives highly recommend this book Boy in the Twilight Stories of the Hidden China is different from the other books I ve read by Chinese authors, probably because it s a collection of short stories rather than a chronicle of one person or family The stories are blunt and speak of universal problems and real people Nothing is sugar coated or overly sentimental Wives cheat on husbands and husbands on wives, and a lack of basic communication can lead to the disintegration of a seemingly strong marriage The subtitle Stories of Boy in the Twilight Stories of the Hidden China is different from the other books I ve read by Chinese authors, probably because it s a collection of short stories rather than a chronicle of one person or family The stories are blunt and speak of universal problems and real people Nothing is sugar coated or overly sentimental Wives cheat on husbands and husbands o...Dark, depressing and at times even disturbing The first story in particular was beyond awful I only pushed through because this was assigned reading for work and the author did write very well and keeps the reader eng...Yu Hua s short story collection of working man s China is fascinating It s a snapshot of hard scrabble lives, colorful characters, and evolving attitudes that gave me a greater understanding of what it means to be Chinese A thoroughly entertaining read.This is a nice set of stories showing life in China for everyday people Being fiction, it is hard to say whether it is an accurate depiction of China, but it s probably pretty close In these stories, focus rests briefly on brutishness, petty cruelty, small mindedness, and all the other everyday evils of daily life, with two particularly ugly scenes setting the tone in the first 2 stories as a halfwit man is tricked into becoming complicit in the killing of his only friend, and a small boy is This is a nice set of stories showing life in China for everyday people Being fiction, it is hard to say whether it is an a...I liked the idea of the bookthan what it actually offered and it took quite a bit of effort to appreciate As a Chinese American, I was hoping to connect with the book in a joyluck esque way, but found that maybe this book isappropriate for my parents generation Y...If you re looking for a book of pleasant stories with happy endings, this isn t it The stories reflect the fatalism that seems to be common in Chinese culture Few, if any, of the characters in this book could be described as sympathetic ones, yet I still was enthralled by their stories.

Boy in the Twilight
  • 01 April 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 208 pages
  • 0307379361
  • Yu Hua
  • Boy in the Twilight