{"id":4758,"date":"2022-10-11T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:41:00","slug":"three-brothers-memories-of-my-family-by-yan-lianke-online-ncta-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/three-brothers-memories-of-my-family-by-yan-lianke-online-ncta-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"“Three Brothers: Memories of My Family” by Yan Lianke Online NCTA Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teachers joined Tese Wintz Neighbor<\/a>\u00a0for an insightful tribute and heart wrenching journey to rural China in the 1960s and 1970s. Three Brothers: Memories of My Family<\/strong><\/a> is a record of Chinese recent history as well as the story of one family. Written by Yan Lianke, it is a powerful and poignant portrait as he recalls and grapples with his rural roots and family relations.<\/p>\n

According to World Literature Today,<\/em> Three Brothers<\/strong> \u201c<\/em>not only provides a deeply heartfelt account of his big family\u2014including his father, his uncles, and his cousins\u2014but also offers a philosophical meditation on dignity, duty, death, and the bond of a rural Chinese family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participants explored Yan Lianke\u2019s family home and discussed his intimate and often poetic 200-page memoir. Yan Lianke is the winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker Prize. Dubbed \u201cChina\u2019s most controversial novelist\u201d by The New Yorker,<\/em> Yan has published more than a dozen novels and more than 40 short stories. Some of his most renowned and satirical stories are banned in China. This is his first memoir.<\/p>\n

Read more about this book in the review from the Asian Review of Books.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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