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work_552um5cl5vh4jatyxt7zxmlgra	Christopher G. Rea	Brothers : A Novel By Yu Hua, Trs. by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow and Carlos Rojas	2019	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4070	244	62	In Yu Hua's latest and longest novel, Brothers (兄 Brothers tells the story of step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang, inhabitants of a fictional Liu Yu, Hua. Brothers: A Novel. http://www.randomhouse.com/book/83703/brothers-by-yu-hua In Brothers, farce is primarily a mode of offence in the dual sense of seeking to offend the moral of the novel: its collective "voice." The third-person narrator who speaks of "our Liu Town" does Baldy Li is primarily to thank for Brothers being Yu Hua's most epigrammatic work to date. Brothers is a symphony of many movements, and the novel shifts registers (to both comic and Baldy Li and Song Gang (echoed to a degree by the ascendant Writer Liu and abjected Poet setting, as when Song Gang acts as "military advisor" to Baldy Li and tells him to pursue Lin why farce has so appealed to Yu Hua's generation of writers, as well as how they have brought it 	./cache/work_552um5cl5vh4jatyxt7zxmlgra.pdf	./txt/work_552um5cl5vh4jatyxt7zxmlgra.txt