How Xue Xiangguan sold his blood

Finally, the romance of one of the largest modern Chinese writers Yu Hua came to the Russian reader, called critics among the ten most influential works of Chinese literature of the 1990s.
This novel about a person who is forced to donate the blood so that his family can survive hunger, illness, political campaigns and other adversity - many Chinese recently turned out to be in such a situation. For this book in 2015, the South Korean director Ha Zhong has removed the film of the same name. In the "text" novels Yu Hua "live" and "Brothers".
... The book is really a long folk song, the rhythm of it is the speed of memories, the motive gently slides from the notes on a note, and pauses lie for rhymes. The author has invented the story of only two people, but calls for many of many. Marcial said: "Recall the past - I don"t care what to live again. And compose, and read - it means to knock on the door of memories to live again. " (Yu Hua)