The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories

by Yu Hua and Hua Yu

Book Overview

To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify.

It is no wonder that Yu Hua's stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824818172
• ISBN13: 9780824818173
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"