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8/100Critics
34/100Scholars
Author:
Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
March 10, 2020
The English-language nonfiction debut one of China's most highly regarded writers, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker Prize, "Three Brothers" is a memoir of the author's childhood and family life during the Cultural Revolution.
What The Reviewers Say
If Yan’s memoir owes its existence to family, it is because every blessing in Yan’s life owed its existence to family, as Yan’s unflinching self-examination demonstrates plainly.
... delicately translated.
After decades of glimpsing autobiographical hints in his always intriguing, often surreal novels and short stories, Anglophone audiences get access to Yan Lianke's real life.
... an elegiac homage to the people and places no longer present for Yan.
