Description

A best-seller in China, Siblings is definitely an unbelievable and extremely unhinged dark humor of contemporary Chinese culture operating amok. Here is China once we've never-seen it before, in a significant, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of tough-and-rumble Chinese heritage, in the madness of the Cultural Revolution for the similarly significant madness of severe materialism. Yu Hua, prize-winning writer of To Reside, provides us an unique story of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, delicate Tune Team, who promise that they'll continually be brothers—a relationship they'll find it difficult to preserve through the years as they weather the ups and downs of competition in love and making and losing thousands in the brand new China. Both sad and ridiculous by converts, Siblings is just a intriguing perspective of an exceptional place and time.