Brothers

　　本書入圍2008曼氏亞洲布克獎決選名單，
　　出版後於中國大陸熱銷超過百萬冊。

　　這是兩個時代相遇以後出生的小說，前一個是文革中的故事，那是一個精神狂熱、本能壓抑和命運慘烈的時代，相當於歐洲的中世紀；後一個是現在的故事，那是一個倫理顛覆、浮躁和眾生萬象的時代，更甚於今天的歐洲。

　　一個西方人活四百年才能經歷這樣兩個天壤之別的時代，一個中國人只需四十年就經歷了。四百年間的動蕩萬變濃縮在了四十年之中，這是彌足珍貴的經歷。

　　連接這二個時代的紐帶就是這兄弟兩人，他們的生活在裂變中裂變，他們的悲喜在爆發中爆發，他們的命運和這二個時代一樣地天翻地覆，最終他們必需恩怨交集地自食其果。

　　《兄弟》展現了改革開放後的中國，經濟與社會的轉變，帶來了人民生活與情緒的轉變；余華直視中國改革開放後種種經濟起飛、貧富差距、人性貪婪的情狀，藉由宋鋼、李光頭這對性格截然不同的兄弟，帶出一幕幕精彩的現代中國浮世繪。文革的中國與現代的中國，人物悲喜命運一樣的震撼人心，故事內容一樣的感人肺腑……

　　A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
 
　　Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers—a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China.
 
　　Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.

　　★本書中譯版《兄弟》由麥田出版。

作者簡介

余華

　　一九六○年四月三日出生，浙江海鹽人，曾經從事過五年牙醫，一九八四年開始寫作。主要作品有小說《活著》、《許三觀賣血記》、《呼喊與細雨》、《黃昏裡的男孩》、《世事如煙》、《我膽小如鼠》、《鮮血梅花》、《兄弟》，散文《我能否相信我自己》等。作品被翻譯成英文、法文、德文、義大利文、西班牙文、荷蘭文、日文、韓文等在國外出版。曾獲國內外多種文學獎，現定居北京。余華因《呼喊與細雨》榮獲法國文學和藝術騎士勳章（2004）。

　　Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China. He finished high school during the Cultural Revolution and worked as a dentist for five years before beginning to write in 1983. He has published four novels, six collections of stories, and three essays collections. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. In 2002 Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. His novel To Live was awarded Italy’s Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1998, and To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant were named two of the last decade’s ten most influential books in China. Yu Hua lives in Beijing.