Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
One of the representative masterpieces by Yu Hua The novel tells the story of Xu Sanguan, a silk factory cocoon transporter, who repeatedly relies on selling his blood to overcome crises and save his family when confronting successive life hardships, including marriage costs, severe famine, his son s trouble-making, rustication to the countryside, and critical illness
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
[Author] Yu Hua
[Publisher] Beijing Publishing Group
[Synopsis]
One of the representative masterpieces by Yu Hua. The novel tells the story of Xu Sanguan, a silk factory cocoon transporter, who repeatedly relies on selling his blood to overcome crises and save his family when confronting successive life hardships, including marriage costs, severe famine, his son's trouble-making, rustication to the countryside, and critical illness. Through the absurd yet humorous perspective of an ordinary person at the grassroots level, the work demonstrates the astonishing resilience of life and the greatness of paternal love when Chinese common people confront suffering.
