Remembrance of Yan Wang (17.00)

Author: Yu Hua
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The Bloodletting Chronicles won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award (2004) in the United States, was selected by The Chosun Ilbo as one of the "100 Must-Read Books" (2000) in South Korea, and was chosen alongside To Live for the "Top 100 Influential Works of the 1990s" by 100 Chinese critics and literary editors. The Bloodletting Chronicles became a national bestseller, creating a huge stir both domestically and internationally, and was translated into Korean, German, Italian, and other languages for publication abroad. The Bloodletting Chronicles portrays life's struggles with profound warmth and expresses humanity's will to survive in the face of adversity through intense storytelling. It is an endless road, an ancient river, a rainbow after the rain, an unending memory, an unfinished folk song, and a single life. All of this is like a bundle of ropes coiled together, slowly being pulled out by Yu Hua's narration to the very end of the road. In reality, it is a very long folk song, its rhythm the speed of memory, its melody gently jumping, rests hidden by rhymes. The history of two people is thus awakened in the spirited song of more memories.