{"product_id":"2940169064889","title":"The April 3rd Incident: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of China's most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel \u003ci\u003eTo Live \u003c\/i\u003ecatapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua's early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more surreal and subjective approach inspired by Kafka, Faulkner, and Borges, the boundary-pushing fiction of this period reflected the momentous cultural changes sweeping the world's most populous nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories collected here show Yu Hua masterfully guiding us from one fractured reality to another. \"A History of Two People\" traces the paths of a man and a woman who dream in parallel throughout their lives. \"In Memory of Miss Willow Yang\" weaves a spellbinding web of signs and symbols. \"As the North Wind Howled\" carries a case of mistaken identity to absurd and hilarious conclusions. And the title story follows an unforgettable narrator determined to unearth a conspiracy against him that may not exist. By turns daring, darkly comic, thought-provoking, and profound, \u003ci\u003eThe April 3rd Incident\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary record of a singular moment in Chinese letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100281782512,"sku":"2940169064889","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169064889_p0.jpg?v=1763759211","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169064889","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}