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Literature · 1993

To Live

Yu Hua

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To Live
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Lets the memory thread settle into a deeper literature form.

One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.

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One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.

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