Three Brothers Memories Of My Family Wo Yu Fubei Yan Lianke by Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas (translation) 9781925923131, 1925923134 instant download after payment.

Three Brothers was first published in China in 2009 by Yunnan People’s Press as Wo yu fubei.

Yan longs to become a writer after reading on the back of a novel that the writer was allowed to remain in the city after publishing her book. But before escaping the village, he has to join the army in order to earn money for his family. Chronicling the lives of his father & uncles, as well as his own, Yan Lianke’s Three Brothers is both a portrait of a singular period & a heartfelt celebration of the power of the family under the harshest circumstances. 

Yan Lianke is the author of numerous novels & novellas, including Hard Like Water, The Day the Sun Died, The Explosion Chronicles, The Four Books, Lenin’s Kisses, Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, & The Years, Months, Days. He was awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature & the Franz Kafka Prize, among many accolades. He was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, & he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, & the Prix Femina Étranger. He has also received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize & the Lao She Award.

Carlos Rojas has translated seven books by Yan Lianke.