A bestseller in China, <i>Brothers</i> is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.<br>&#160;<br>Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of <i>To Live</i>, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers&mdash;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.<br>&#160;<br>Both tragic and absurd by turns, <i>Brothers</i> is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.