To Live

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Anchor Books
Pub date: 31 May 2013
Language: English
Number of pages: 250
Weight: 190g
Height: 203mm
Width: 149mm
Spine width: 14mm - From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. After squandering his family's fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Civil War, only to return years later to face a string of hardships brought on by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution. Left with an ox as the companion of his final years, Fugui stands as a model of gritty authenticity, buoyed by his appreciation for life in this narrative of humbling power.