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<p>From the Franz Kafka Prize–winning author. "Full of love, sorrow, and tenderness... a deeply heartfelt account of his family in the 1960s and 70s." —Xiaolu Guo, award-winning author of Nine Continents With lyricism and deep emotion, Yan Lianke chronicles the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, as well as his own during the Cultural Revolution. Living in a remote village, Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and while Yan dreams of fried scallion buns, and even steals from his father to buy sesame seed cakes. He yearns to leave the village, however he can, and soon novels become an escape. He resolves to become a writer himself after reading on the back of a novel that its author was given leave to remain in the city of Harbin after publishing her book. In the evenings, after finishing back-breaking shifts hauling stones at a cement factory, sometimes sixteen hours long, he sets to work writing. He is ultimately delivered from the drudgery and danger of manual labor by a career in the Army, but he is filled with regrets as he recalls these years of scarcity, turmoil, and poverty. A philosophical portrait o

Who reads Three Brothers : Memories of My Family?

Author

Lianke, Yan

Publisher

Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802148094

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

3.7 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14