Yu Hua is the author of novels To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, Brothers and The Seventh Day, the short-story collections The Past and the Punishments and Boy in the Twilight, and the essay collection China in Ten Words.
‘Every time I tried to write more, it turned out to be a fruitless endeavor – I felt like I was trapped in a sealed room with no windows.’Fiction by Yu Hua, translated by Michael Berry.
