Yu Hua - Brothers

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A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France’s Prix Courrier International,
is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
Here is China as we’ve never seen it, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history that has already scandalized millions of readers in the author’s homeland. Yu Hua, award-winning author of
, gives us a surreal tale of two brothers riding the dizzying roller coaster of life in a newly capitalist world. As comically mismatched teenagers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne’er-do-well, and Song Gang, his bookish, sensitive stepbrother, vow that they will always be brothers-a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China. Their tribulations play out across a richly populated backdrop that is every bit as vibrant: the rapidly-changing village of Liu Town, full of such lively characters as the self-important Poet Zhao, the craven dentist Yanker Yu, the virginal town beauty (turned madam) Lin Hong, and the simpering vendor Popsicle Wang.
With sly and biting humor, combined with an insightful and compassionate eye for the lives of ordinary people, Yu Hua shows how the madness of the Cultural Revolution has transformed into the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Both tragic and absurd by turns,
is a monumental spectacle and a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.

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Virgin Beauty #1358 asked in a quivering voice, "Are you done?"

"Not yet," Baldy Li said.

Baldy Li then set down his magnifying glass and proceeded to do precisely what the virgin beauty's mother had said he shouldn't. He immediately stuck it in, thereby ripping the hymen. Virgin Beauty #1358 let out a shriek of pain and cried out, "My mother said not to."

"Fuck your mother."

While pounding her, Baldy Li happily told #1358, "You should give your mother a call, because now you are the champion. You have won the million-yuan prize."

The virgin beauty's sobs gradually died away, but her painful moans continued. She cried out in a wavering voice, "Mama, mama …"

Baldy Li did it from behind for a while, then asked her to turn over, explaining that he wanted to switch positions. She, however, adamantly refused to turn over. Baldy Li therefore forcibly turned her over, and she again began to cry and beg him, saying that this was her first time and she was very scared and therefore didn't dare look at him. Baldy Li eventually took pity on her, having no choice but to continue taking her from behind while at the same time cursing, "Virgins are truly a fucking pain."

That night Baldy Li fucked Virgin Beauty #1358 nearly to death. She had thought that after doing it once he would let her go. She hadn't expected that he would keep her there and do her over and over again all night — four times in all. The first two times she insisted on lying facedown, adamantly refusing to turn over. She was afraid that as soon as she turned over, Baldy Li would see her stretch marks. By the time she finally fell asleep from pain and exhaustion, Baldy Li had fallen asleep as well. She didn't expect that he would wake up after two hours and, while she was still asleep, turn her over and take her a third time. It was then that Baldy Li noticed that she had some marks on her stomach. When she woke up and noticed him looking at them, she immediately rolled back over, leaving him no choice but to continue taking her from behind. While pounding her, Baldy Li asked why she had these marks. Moaning, she explained that they were scars from a skin condition she had as a child. Baldy Li didn't ask again, and after taking her the third time, he fell asleep once more, but she didn't dare, afraid that if he had a chance to examine her stretch marks again, he would guess the truth and her secret would be revealed. Therefore she continued lying facedown hugging a pillow. At daybreak, Baldy Li took her a fourth time, from behind again. Then he slept for five more hours, and by the time he awoke, she was dressed and sitting on the couch.

After sending Virgin Beauty #1358 away, Baldy Li was jubilant for a couple of hours. When PR Liu came, Baldy Li still had a broad smile on his face. Liu was pleased to see this, thinking that Baldy Li must have had a brilliant time in bed that night. He grinned and said, "I just saw #1358 limping away. I imagine that last night you must have swept her off her feet."

Baldy Li held up four fingers and said, "I swept her four times."

PR Liu jumped in surprise, holding up four fingers, said, "If I could sweep someone once every four weeks, I would consider myself to be doing well."

"I have finally known a hymen." Baldy Li laughed proudly, then added with disappointment, "That fucking hymen wasn't what I had expected. It wasn't at all innocent and romantic."

He pointed to the magnifying glass, telescope, and microscope and continued, "I couldn't use the microscope, and it was only when I turned the telescope around that it showed me something interesting, as though I were peeking at a hymen from across the street. The magnifying glass was the most useful, allowing me to see everything clearly.

"My biggest regret," he concluded, "was that all four times I had to do it from behind."

Suddenly Baldy Li frowned, remembering the marks on #1358s belly. He was reminded of how, when doing this kind of thing with young mothers, he had seen similar marks on their bellies as well. Suddenly realizing why Virgin Beauty #1358 had insisted on lying facedown, refusing to turn over, he cried out, "Damn it, I've been had!"

PR Liu stared at Baldy Li, who exclaimed, "She's had a baby! That's why she had stretch marks on her belly. She must have fucking had her hymen reconstructed. She wasn't an out-of-the-box virgin. She was a fucking refurbished one."

PR Liu stared at Baldy Li for a long time before finally understanding what had happened. Very uneasily he said, "I'm sorry, Boss Li. This is my fault, it's my fault that you didn't break your record."

"It wasn't your fault," said Baldy Li. "I was the one who picked her." Then he laughed magnanimously and said, "She did have a great body, though — a round ass, thin shoulders, long, plump legs, not to mention a pretty face. At the very least, I broke my height record."

PR Liu swore that he would go and find someone else, and this time he would make sure she was a real virgin. Before the Virgin Beauty Competition concluded, he promised, he was going to make sure Baldy Li broke his personal record.

Now that PR Liu had a sense of Baldy Li's type, he carefully inspected each of the finalists and found #864, who was also over six feet tall and who also had a round ass and long, plump legs, though her face wasn't as pretty as the first one's. PR Liu decided that that she would do.

What PR Liu didn't know, however, was that not only was contestant #864 not an original virgin; she wasn't even a refurbished one — at most she was just unassembled parts. In order to secure the championship, #864 had already slept with six of the judges and had already bought six Joan of Arc artificial hymens from that charlatan Wandering Zhou in order to have six bloody deflowerings. Therefore, all six judges were tricked into thinking that they had slept with a virgin. This #864, therefore, was even worse than #1358, because at least #1358 was a refurbished virgin who had maintained her secondary virginity until she went to bed with Baldy Li.

When PR Liu went to find #864, this unpackaged virgin was in the process of flirting with the seventh judge and was about to go to bed with him.

PR Liu met #864 in the café. He was quite pleased by this virgin beauty's bold and frank manner, which was quite different from #i358's false modesty. She snuggled up to Liu and spoke warmly. PR Liu was much more relaxed with her and didn't feel the need to beat around the bush. He started by explaining that they had discovered that many of the contestants were no longer virgins, and furthermore that some, in order to gain an unfair advantage, had tried to win over the judges.

PR Liu didn't specify that the contestants had actually slept with the judges, instead using the euphemism win over. When #864 heard PR Liu speak this way, she became very nervous and thought that someone had ratted her out to Baldy Li. Blushing furiously, she denounced women for falsely accusing innocent contestants of sleeping with the judges after doing precisely that themselves. Tears streamed down her face, as she repeatedly insisted on her own purity, saying that she was willing to submit to a medical examination. "You are welcome to take me to the hospital for an examination, or even examine me yourself."

PR Liu had not expected the conversation to go so smoothly or to have reached this point so quickly. He laughed cordially and told her, "In order to prove your purity, you must be inspected, and furthermore you must be inspected personally by our Boss Li."

After Virgin Beauty #864 and PR Liu parted, she immediately went to find Wandering Zhou. By that point, Wandering Zhou had only a single Lady Meng Jiang domestic hymen left. He was sitting in the snack shop flirting with Missy Su. Virgin Beauty #864 sent Wandering Zhou a glance from the doorway, and he knew immediately that she needed another artificial hymen. She was Wandering Zhou's old customer, but he pretended that he didn't see her and continued flirting with Missy Su. Virgin Beauty #864 acted as if her house were on fire, but Zhou still waited until Missy Su got up to go check on the kitchen before walking slowly to the door. Virgin Beauty #864 urgently asked him for a Joan of Arc hymen, but he took out his last Lady Meng Jiang and said, "I don't have any more Joan of Arcs, just this final Lady Meng Jiang."

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