Boy in the Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yu Hua is the author of five novels, six collections of stories, and four collections of essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2002, he became the first Chinese writer to win the James Joyce Award. His novel

Brothers

was short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize and awarded France’s Prix Courrier International.

To Live

was awarded Italy’s Premio Grinzane Cavour, and

To Live

and

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

were ranked among the ten most influential books in China in the 1990s by

Wen Hui Bao

, the largest newspaper in Shanghai. Yu Hua lives in Beijing.

About the Translator

Allan H. Barr is the translator of Yu Hua’s debut novel,

Cries in the Drizzle

, and his essay collection

China in Ten Words

He teaches Chinese at Pomona College in California.