"Once an edgy experimentalist, Yu Hua is now one of China's best-selling writers."--The Paris Review

"City of Fiction is not just a city where the story happens, but a space in which the readers can let their imaginations roam free."--China Daily

"This remarkable work has a strange sweetness at its core... both loving and astonishingly cruel in its depiction of China at the turn of the 20th century and at a pivotal point in its cultural and political progress. The unfolding of a deeply personal and yet universally engaging struggle inspires the reader to rethink what is known or thought of Chinese history."--Reading the West

Praise for The Seventh Day

"Elegant and sharp...By turns inventive and playful and dark and disturbing, with much to say about modern China." --NPR

"Surreal...Yu's most devastating critique of the new Chinese reality." --The New York Times Book Review

"Entertaining...Intriguing...In narrowing his lens, his work carries new urgency."--The Wall Street Journal

"A political allegory for life--and death--experienced in the chaos of a rapidly changing modern China." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A ghostly walk through contemporary China evokes the human cost of some of the big issues that nation is facing."--The Toronto Star

"Mesmerizing...Internationally award-winning novelist Hua crafts a discerning critique of contemporary Chinese culture through an evocative allegory revealing fates much worse than death."--Booklist

★ "[A] poignant fable about family bonds made not of blood ties but unbreakable heartstrings. It will assuredly reward Yu's readers, familiar and new."--Library Journal (starred review)

Praise for Brothers

"Sensational, sweeping...tremendous... In recognition of this terrific literary achievement, I think that, instead of the Year of the Ox, this should be the Year of Yu Hua."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Impressive...a family history documenting four decades of profound social and cultural transformation in China...[and] an irreverent take on everything from the Cultural Revolution to the capitalist boom...[A] relentlessly entertaining epic."--The New Yorker

"Portraits of contemporary China are rarely sharper or more savage."--TIME Magazine

"[A] great literary achievement...A sprawling, bawdy epic that crackles with life's joys, sorrows, and misadventures."--The Boston Globe

"Waggish but merciless... A consistently and terrifically funny read."--Los Angeles Times

"A work of rare scope and grandeur...[Yu Hua's] sharply unadorned language is all his own, carrying a ripe and pungent tone...This is the epic as plain-spoken brawl, one with blood on its face, a tear in the eye, and a grin on the lips. 10 out of 10 stars."--Pop Matters

"For their translation Eileen Cheng-yin Chow and Carlos Rojas receive high marks, giving their narrator a consistent voice with palpable wit and visible verve, shortening Yu Hua's sentences to fit English expectations but maintaining fidelity to the length and pace of his clauses, the real seat of an author's prose style."--Rain Taxi Review of Books

"Yu Hua's epic novel--a bestseller in his native China--is a tale of ribaldry, farce and bloody revolution, a dramatic panorama of human vulgarity...at once hyperrealist and phantasmagorical...We can see a true picture of the country refracted in this funhouse mirror."--The Washington Post