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標題: 紐約時報介紹 余華 兄弟 A Portrait of China Running Amok
時間: Tue Sep 5 07:25:04 2006
A Portrait of China Running Amok
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/books/04hua.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin
September 4, 2006
By DAVID BARBOZA
BEIJING, Aug. 30 — The most talked about novel in China this year is “
Brothers,” by Yu Hua, a surreal tale of two stepbrothers coming of age
during the economic boom in the 1990’s.
The novel, published in two volumes in 2005 and 2006, has sold nearly one
million copies here, a remarkable achievement in a country where book piracy
is widespread and novels are easily downloaded free from the Internet.
The China of Mr. Yu’s black comedy is a society in which everyone is
scrambling to get rich and con artists abound. Li Guangtou, the younger
brother in the novel, becomes famous by creating a beauty pageant for
virgins; Song Gang, the older brother, has one of his breasts surgically
enlarged to help sell a line of breast-enlargement gels for women in the
countryside.
Many critics here have lashed out at Mr. Yu, who has long been one of China’
s most respected novelists, for producing what one called a trashy,
Hollywood-style portrait of the country.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/books/04hua.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&pagewanted=print
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