To live

In his youth, when he devoured the family fortune, Fugui was of course unaware of what a long life would offer him.

Years later, when he began to talk about his life to a stranger he met while plowing his field with his old ox, he would therefore tell more than what a spoiled young man experiences: Fugui tells the story of the lives of six people including himself, the surprises of fate, the pains and joys of life. What comes out of his tongue - or rather from Yu Hua's pen - thus becomes an epic novel about the human condition. A simple narrative gives birth to a powerful narrative: lines on paper like the traces left by the plow in the soil. Just as life encompasses everything, Yaşamak embraces life as it is. With its births and deaths, unhappiness and hopes...
Although it was banned in his country when it was published, Yaşamak, which has become a "modern classic" with an increasing number of readers saying that they have lived a life instead of reading a life story, has been translated from the original Chinese by Bahar Kılıç.