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First published January 1, 1995

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Yu Hua

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Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余华; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible.[citation needed] He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.

Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Live. The latter novel was adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. Because the film was banned in China, it instantly made the novel a bestseller and Yu Hua a worldwide celebrity. His novels have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Hungarian, Serbian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam and Turkish.

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183 reviews225 followers
October 6, 2018
?in Edebiyat? ile bu kitapla tan??t?m. ?yi ki de tan??t?m.

Yu Hua'n?n okudu?um ilk eseri ve g?rdüm ki hakk?nda s?ylenenler hi? de abart? de?il. S?rada Ya?amak var, ama ondan ?ncesinde bu kitap üzerine birka? ?ey s?ylemek istiyorum.

Kan?n? Satan Adam ile birlikte Yu Hua, asl?nda büyük badireler atlatan bir aileyi ?yle bir resmetmi? ki hem arka planda ?in'in ge?irdi?i kültürel devrimi tüm ??plakl???yla g?rmü? olduk, hem de asl?nda büyük s?k?nt?lara konu olan bu aileyi kara mizahla e?lenceli bi?imde y?llar y?l? takip ettik.

Laf? uzatmadan, sade ama samimi bir dil ve ba??ndan kalkmadan okutan cazibesiyle ilgin? bir kitapt? Kan?n? Satan Adam. Ba?ka bir yazar?n elinde inan?lmaz ?ekilde i? ac?tacakken, Yu Hua'n?n elinde tebessümlere neden olan cinsten. Ve ?te yandan her ?ey ?ylesine ger?ek ki, yazar?n bir ?eylere k?l?f buldu?unu da dü?ünemiyorsunuz.

Jaguar Kitap ise onlara olan sayg?m? katlam?? durumda. Toplamda 3 yaz?m hatas?n?n saymazsak (?ok da mühim ?eylerde de?illerdi), muazzam bir ?eviri ve edit?rlükle ( ve o kapak!) bizi bu kitapla bulu?turdu. ?evirmen Erdem Kurtuldu'nun da ayr?ca ellerine, zihnine sa?l?k.

Ya?as?n i?ini a?kla yapan kü?ük yay?nevleri. Ya?as?n Avrupa ve Amerikan Edebiyat?'n?n boyunduru?unu k?ran anlay??lar.
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August 25, 2013
I have anemia and irrespective of what comprises my daily diet or the amount I consume, my body's ability to manufacture blood and hemoglobin remains permanently stunted. Which is why I have no choice but to take iron supplements regularly and without fail.
Once I suspend this routine for a few days, the dizziness, the lack of vigour returns to haunt me with a vengeance.

So perhaps, it is a travesty of the highest order that I will now proceed to empathize with the protagonist's compulsion of selling his own blood away like a commodity to procure a few Yuan for his family's well-being.
I am supposed to wax eloquent about how moving an account this is of the mishaps that befall a family, mainly due to the policies implemented by a cruel, unfeeling administration divorced from the needs of the common man.
I do know a thing or two about being bloodless but then I have no first-hand knowledge of suburban and rural poverty in China preceding and succeeding the years of the Cultural Revolution. Hence, I don't deserve to frame a few pompous sounding sentences in a review depicting the hardships of Xu Sanguan and his family and express commiseration. Because come what may, I'll never be able to experience what it feels like to be in his shoes. Even if my family falls on hard times, I'll promptly be shooed away from hospitals or laughed at if I ever did try and sell/donate my blood.

How can I understand destitution, sitting here inside an air-conditioned room typing away patronizingly at a desktop after having read a book on my kindle? I don't know the first thing about working on an empty stomach in a silk factory. Or being forced to savour a bowl of thin corn flour gruel laced with sugar like the finest gourmet dish in existence during a terrible famine. Or having to sell blood and, in turn, risk selling my life away in order for my family to get over a crisis. Or having my life's basic structure re-modelled according to the whims of a delusional autocrat.

But what I do perceive with shocking certainty is the giant, looming shadow of Chairman Mao's legacy of despotism and how deeply it affects the work of writers from this fascinating country.
It is becoming increasingly hard to imagine coming across literature from and about China devoid of any mention of the Communist Party's history of corruption and the blunt indifference with which they stripped away a generation of people of their dignity as human beings, treating them almost like laboratory mice.

Xu Sanguan goes through life, fights his daily battles with various adversities without knowing the first thing about Communism, Socialism or Capitalism. He only wishes to provide for his family and survive, remaining largely clueless about the political upheavals in his own country or their significance in the greater scheme of things. Forget politics, he only identifies with the English letter 'O' as a circle which denotes his blood group. Such is the extent of his guileless ignorance.

He can only know what being in the throes of starvation feels like and what it is like to be in perpetual need of one thing or another. Concepts like subversion, revolution, agitation or questioning the legitimacy of a regime or higher authority are alien to him.
And yet innocuous as his existence is, ripples of political disturbances outside the realm of his comprehension bring turbulence into his own minuscule sphere of existence. He suffers and we suffer along with him.

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant showcases no instances of ostentatious wordsmithy or lucid erudition. Instead, Yu Hua often resorts to crude metaphors to bring to life the rustic simplicity of the backdrop against which the story unfolds. But what catapults this into the league of great literature is its endearing honesty and its attempt at remaining true to the spirit of an age and a nation caught in a painful phase of transformation. Sanguan's bloodlessness is rife with underlying implications. It is his steady depletion of vitality which symbolizes the silent misery of a generation.

And yet, this book stresses not so much on an anti-communist rhetoric as much as it directs its energies at narrating a tale of blood ties and a family's quest for survival in the face of all imaginable trials and tribulations. A family which couldn't care less about Mao remaining in power or Mao being deposed.

Because to the Xu Sanguans of China, all meaning in life lies embedded in a crock full of bug-free rice and a few Yuan which can buy them the luxury of gorging on fried pork livers and gulping down a few shots of cheap yellow wine.
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"Have you heard? Do you know why the factories have
shut down, and the stores are closed, and why there are no classes at the
schools? You know why you don’t have to go fry dough? Why some people have hung themselves from trees, and some people are locked up in ‘cow sheds’ and beaten half to death? Do you know why? Do you know why as soon as Chairman Mao says something, people take what he said and make it into a song, and paint his words on the walls, and on the pavement, and on cars and ferry boats, on their sheets and pillowcases, on cups and cooking pans, and even on bathroom walls and the sides of spittoons?Do you know how it was that Chairman Mao’s name grew so long? Listen to this: He’s the Great Leader Great Teacher Supreme Commander and Helmsman Chairman Mao May He Live Ten Thousand Years! That’s fifteen words in all, and you have to say it in one breath, without missing a beat. You know why that is? Because the Cultural Revolution has arrived."... "I’m only just now starting to understand what this Cultural Revolution is all about. It’s actually just a time for settling old scores".
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“There’s an old saying that still rings true. The more
you see, the more you learn about the world. I think I must have aged ten
years in the last few months. It’s true that ‘you can know a man’s face but
not his heart.’


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August 11, 2016

Twelve times, a hope,
Twelve times, a plea,
Twelve times, the letter ‘O’,
Thirty-five yuan, a stack,
Twelve times, it flowed,
The blood of a patriarch.

What would you do if money ran through your veins? The resource of currency was within you and as you breathe the stench of poverty, the crimson wealth mocked your deplorable life. What if the final hope of a venerable survival sailed in the profound metallic waves of warm blood? Would you, like Xu Sanguan let the crimson money flow into the cold exteriors of a beaker or let it darken within the emaciated carcass of life?

“Is it true that people who sell their blood are really healthy?”

The white puffy cocoons are meticulously sorted out with nimble fingers and then the high-quality ones are boiled in water for several minutes examining their subtle watery swirls. After the cocoons have been taken out of the water, a shiny dissecting needle is tenderly pierced picking up the silken strands as it is uniformly reeled around a pencil or related object. The reeled silk is then packed into small bundles and shipped to numerous silk factories. Blood was Sanguan’s silk. The robust needle released the dainty silken threads from Sanguan’s veins, as the splendour of life reeled into the comatose bottles. The crimson silk was pulled out from the socio-political cocoon of adversity. Blood was Sanguan’s sole wealth, his solitary path to becoming an honourable man.

Medically, blood is termed to be a fluid that transports oxygen and nutrients to the cells and removes waste matter from the same cells. Humanly, Sanguan’s blood stayed true to its responsibility too. It imparted oxygen to the collapsing lives around him and eradicated the squalor of destitution. Although, blood selling is conventionally illegal in China, yet for decades the country has witnessed the proliferation of blood-selling black markets mushrooming in every corner of the country, especially its countryside, thus compensating excess currency for blood. China considers blood-selling as a societal failure. There have been genuine cases till date that expose the underbelly of blood-marketing and the despondency of poverty-ridden families. A societal failure, is that the ultimate inference? What sort of circumstances led to this bloody chaos? Did the government even bother to investigate the root cause of this blood selling commotion? Or then as always turned a blind eye to the festering poverty? An impoverished life that has been robbed till the last crumb of sustainable resources, yet advised to be resilient, how will it feed the hungry stomach? When the political elites indulge in pompous propaganda about their country attaining the top rung of the socio-economic ladder, do the government even bother to glance at those who still dwell in the squalor of the lowest rung? For a humble, simple cart-pusher at a silk factory who slowly disintegrated encumbering in the infinite shadows of poverty, blood was the ever growing “money tree”. The energy that came from blood was more valuable than the one which came from the muscle. The “sweat money” that arrived from toiling the fields was able to merely diminish the pangs of starvation. On the other hand, the “blood money” bestowed the luxury of affording a wife and buying a house. Blood had become more precious than a bumper crop in the impecunious existence of the rural areas.

When poverty spews venom into the land, annihilating the crops and dependent lives, the human body is the solitary hope for a dignified survival. Villages ravaged by extreme poverty, lands being snatched by existing hypocritical governmental policies and the ironical fate of human dignity muddled amid socio-political pandemonium; poverty had even passed through the corridors of the city. For Xu Sanguan and the numerous rural folks, blood became their lone possession, something that they essentially owned and would not be snatched or demolished by their country elites. Blood was like that “water well” which never ran dry and could always quench the thirst of the needy. Readers of this book, may not agree to the ways of Xu Sanguan, but in a land where one witnesses his children howl with hunger, the bones of his loved ones protruding from their shriveled skin, the very symbol of a robust patriarch fading helplessly in an impecunious abyss and when life around you crumbles into the circling sphere of despair, one is compelled with desperation to look for indescribable resolutions. Only when one reaches to the edge of desolation, one tries to find a way back to safety. Blood safeguarded Xu Sanguan and his family and thus he was not ashamed of its usage. Blood restored reverence and dignity in Sanguan’s life and where money failed, it was those several bowls of blood that remunerated dignity binding the fragments of a collapsing life simultaneously.

“My dad used to tell me when I was little that your blood is passed down from your ancestors. You can sell fried dough, sell a house, sell off your land, but can never sell your blood............Selling your blood is like selling your ancestors.........”

Were Xu Yulan’s accusations of Sanguan selling his ancestors accurate? Was the act of selling blood insulting to one’s ancestors? In what way did Sanguan become a criminal, when his blood saved the cherished lives of his descendants? Did Sanguan commit a sin, when he sold his blood, so that his children could for once take pleasure in slurping hot noodles, rather than starving themselves on watery corn flour gruel? Was Sanguan immoral when his ‘ blood money’ bought rice and meat to his hapless wife as she stood in the blazing sun, malnourished and crouched under the heaviness of being publicly labelled as a prostitute? Did Sanguan really offend his ancestors when he became a symbol of a sincere patriarch by taking care and saving his family from the most adverse circumstances?

Yu Hua’s dark humour -The Chronicle of Blood Merchant primarily revolves around the trials and tribulations of Xu Sanguan, his wife- Xu Yulan and three sons (Yile, Erle and Sanle), as the family endures a changing Chinese Society through the political storms of The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution; where blood was made as watery as the corn flour gruel to nourish a famished existence and maturity was not gained through the growth of life but by the loss of it.

The ostentatious big-character posters that were plastered on every street corner during the Mao dominant Cultural Revolution era fascinated Yu Hua and were the source of his literary aspirations. Yu Hua once said:-“This is the earliest genuine literature I read. On the street, in front of big-character posters, I began to like literature.” Resembling an artistic satirical poster, Yu Hua’s novel stays faithful to its titular plot. In the course of Sanguan’s resilient journey, Yu Hua articulates the element of critical realism through literary depictions of social changes, highlighting diverse themes of family, acceptance, resilience, sacrifice and impoverished survival. Xu Sanguan’s affectionate acceptance of Yile during the tussle stuck between nature and nurture; Xu Yulan’s makeover from the exquisite “Fried Dough Queen” to an industrious wife who vigilantly calculated every ‘fen’ that entered her home; Sanguan’s sons who faced their own internal conflicts while surviving in external adversities and Sanguan’s vital sacrifice of his own blood for the well-being of his family. The hospital plays a crucial role in the deciding factor of the novel as it becomes a sort of a heavenly sanctuary for Xu Sanguan where he finds a breathing space from every merciless and sadistic calamity. Yu Hua’s characters explode bursting through the printed words, becoming animated through their sorrows and epigrammatic happiness binding all individualistic characters into a family as a sturdy principal unit. One can hear the poignant song of Sanguan’s blood as it trickles into the highly hung bottle; the fragrance of juicy braised pork that Sanguan’s cooks through his mouth, painfully stings the heart; Yile’s copious tears that fly through the streets, Xu Yulan’s public and personal defamation and the whimpers of impoverished populace pleading the Blood Chief Li to help them make money; generate a few heart wrenching moments. Through the web of wispy threads reeled out from the cottony gloves, the echo of melancholic survival bathed in red gold.

“All I want is fried pork livers and yellow rice wine.........”

The gains of nationalistic fervor, the vivid socialist dreams, the communist farce of equality; all these agendas are non-existent in an ordinary life. A common man who toils from daybreak to sunset does not care about the bickering of politics; all he cares is about bringing ample food to the table and see his children grow in a liberated world of contentment. He wants his country to flourish but fears the persecution of his family’s well-being. All Xu Sanguan desired was to breathe a blissful life with Xu Yulan and his three sons. All Genlong wanted was to marry his beloved woman and the rural folk in China yearned to provide a healthier life for their kin. For men, whose foreign language skills were restricted to couple alphabets relating to varied blood groups (A, AB, O, B...), the felonies of their administration flowed through the streams of their blood. The aroma of fried pork livers and the tingle of warm rice wine blended in the corroded smell of the blood; the pious meal that too came for the price of blood. The modest meal of pork livers and wine had been embedded deep into Sanguan’s blood cells and in the end its cravings haunted Sanguan, decades later in a much freer Chinese society, for the reason that selling blood had become Sanguan’s weapon in the war of poverty and humiliation and the subsequent meaty feast, a reward for winning the war.

I’m privileged for not having to experience the malice of poverty. I’m fortunate enough to have only seen my blood flow in mere couple drops and not like an angry river. Sadly, I truthfully know that there are several Sanguans, Ah Fengs and Genlongs with bursting bladders queuing in the sinister shadows of a medical clinic, wondering if their blood will fetch them a serving of fried pork liver and warm rice wine and maybe the child’s school fees. I can hear a steady affirmation from Xu Sanguan, after all we do share the same letter ‘O’.
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November 6, 2019
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July 16, 2019
yu hua yine mükemmel bir hikayeyle ?in tarihini anlatm??.
ayn? zamanda ?ok ?ok iyi bir evlilik ve baba o?ul hikayesi. neredeyse brecht’in kafkas tebe?ir dairesi gibi.
?ok ?ok sevdi?im bir karakter oldu xu sanguan... her ?eyiyle. kar?s?, ?ocuklar?, kom?ular? hepsi g?zümüzün ?nünde ya??yor.
?evirinin ve kapa??n mükemmelli?ine ise diyecek yok.
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891 reviews
July 26, 2018
Cronache di un venditore di sangue è un libro che mi ha sbalordito, per le sue molteplici sfaccettature, parte come un racconto ironico di vita quotidiana, dove un ragazzo cerca di tirare avanti. Poi l'ironico si fa grottesco ed a tratti inquietante, poi tragicomico ed infine lascia al lettore spunti di riflessione dove non si può far altro che pensare a ciò che siamo. Anche se il libro è ambientato e ci racconta di una civiltà, quella cinese, molto lontana dalla nostra europea, ho trovato molto in comune, nel senso l'istinto di sopravvivenza è lo stesso, quello che cambia è il come, il dove ed il perchè...

"I peli del pene crescono dopo le sopracciglia, ma diventano più lunghi"
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August 18, 2021
“... ma il sangue non è esattamente come il sudore.”


Il venditore di sangue, annunciato dal titolo di questo romanzo, si chiama Xu Sanguan e lavora in un setificio.
In realtà, lui non conosce quest’usanza del vendere sangue, anzi, nella città dove abita non è cosa vista di buon occhio ma segno di chi è caduto in disgrazia.
Un giorno, però, si reca nel villaggio dove è cresciuto a far visita al nonno, il quale gli domanda:

” - Figlio mio, hai una buona salute?
- Si, - rispose Xu Sanguan. - Nonno, non sono tuo figlio…
- Figlio, vai anche tu a vendere spesso il sangue ? - insisté il nonno.
- No, - rispose Xu Sanguan scuotendo la testa, - non l’ho mai venduto.
- Figlio mio… non hai mai venduto il sangue e sostieni di avere una buona salute?
Mi stai prendendo in giro.”



Xu Sanguan lo farà una prima volta per curiosità e con i soldi guadagnati potrà permettersi di sposare Xu Yulan (detta la Venere delle frittelle!!) e da cui avrà tre figli:
Felice Uno, Felice Due e Felice Tre (!!!).

Tra disgrazie private ed imprevedibili avvenimenti storici passano gli anni.
La venerazione per il presidente Mao cresce a dismisura e si arriva alla Rivoluzione Culturale.
I muri tappezzati di dazibao aprono l’era delle vendette private che poi si amplificano con le pubbliche autocritiche nelle piazze cittadine in un moto continuo di umiliazione pubblica.

Yu Hua, come in ”叠谤辞迟丑别谤蝉” dipinge scene tragiche usando i colori della farsa.
Così, ad esempio, nei drammatici giorni della carestia dove il pensiero fisso diventa l’insostenibile vuoto delle pance, Xu Sanguan nutre la famiglia con immaginari pranzetti raccontati nei minimi dettagli ai figli sofferenti:

” Che cosa volete mangiare ?
Visto che è il mio compleanno, mi darò da fare per cucinare con la bocca un piatto per ciascuno di voi.
Voi mangerete con le orecchie, ascoltando. Non usate la bocca, non riuscireste a ingoiare nemmeno una scoreggia. Drizzate le orecchie, mi accingo a cucinare un piatto.
Scegliete voi, uno alla volta.”


Un romanzo forte, intenso che si legge incredibilmente con il sorriso.
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September 17, 2018
35 Yuan i?in neler yapars?n?z? Neleri g?ze al?r,neleri yok sayars?n?z?
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Xu Sanguan’?n Xu Yulan ile evlili?i,ü? ?ocuklar?,arka planda ?in’de ya?anan de?i?meler ve kan?n? feraha kavu?mak i?in satma güdüsü..
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Xu Sanguan,?evrede yay?lan dedikodular sonucunda en büyük o?ullar?n?n ba?ka bir ki?inin ?ocu?u oldu?u ??reniyor.Bu ger?ek fazla a??r olsa da ba?lar?na gelecek olaylar?n sadece ba?lang?? k?s?m?.
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Her karakter bir soruna bulan?yor bu kitapta.?ocuklar?n?n do?umunda ya?ad??? mutluluk sonucu isimlerini mutlulukla ba?da?t?ran baba Sanguan,ne kadar darbe alsa da fedakarl?kta bulunmaktan vazge?miyor/vazge?emiyor.?ünkü ‘?nce insan olabilme’nin erdemine inan?yor.Yapt??? yanl???n fark?na varabiliyor ?rne?in,verdi?i s?zün senet oldu?unu biliyor,e?ine ne kadar k?rg?n da olsa sar?p sarmalayabiliyor.Ve kan?yla deviriyor ?nüne ??kan her engeli.
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Kitaptaki sakl? karakter ise Kültür Devrimi’nin keskinli?i.E?itimlilerin k?rsala g?nderilmesi,üretimin durmas?,k?tl?k ve sürekli kontrol alt?ndayken dahi ya?ama gayreti gibi..Ve Xu ailesine bakt???m?zda bile bu keskinli?in can al?c?l???n? duyumsuyoruz.
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Yu Hua ile 2016’da Ya?amak adl? kitab? ile tan??m??, hemen di?er kitab? Yedinci Gün’ü okumu?tum.Kan?n? Satan Adam’? ise yine ayn? heyecan ve merak ile ba?lad?m ki bu beklentimde yan?lmamak beni ayr?ca mutlu etti.?? kitab?nda ortak nokta ‘baba’ kavram?.Genelde ele?tirilen,eksik bulunan ve ‘zaten zorunluymu??as?na’ itilen g?revlerin asl?nda erkekler üzerinde nas?l bir bask? unsuruna d?nü?tü?ünü de g?rüyoruz.Ancak bunu yaparken kad?nlar?n yüklerini bir kenarda unutmuyor yazar.Toplumun kad?n bedenini sahiplenilicili?ini, ’e?,anne,evlat’ olarak kad?n?n konumland?r?lmas?n? da Xu Yulan karakteri üzerinden i?liyor.
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842 reviews190 followers
November 18, 2018
"...Xu Sanguan bazen koltukta uzan?rken bunu dü?ününce i?i ac?r, g?zya?? d?kerdi. Xu Sanguan'?n g?zya?? d?ktü?ü zamanlarda bazen Sanle ??kagelir, babas?n?n a?lad???n? g?rünce o da onunla birlikte a?lamaya ba?lard?. Ne babas?n?n ne de kendisinin niye a?lad???n? bilmezdi ama. Babas?n?n üzüntüsü hemen ona bula??rd?, birisinin esnedi?i zaman di?erinin de esnemesi gibi."

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Al?nt?lad???m k?sma aldanmay?n, evet yine elle tutulur bi' hüzün, az?c?k derdimiz kederimiz var fakat bu kez ?a??rt?c? bi' ?ekilde ?zellikle Ya?amak ile k?yasland???nda bi' iyimserlik s?z konusu. Kitap zaman zaman gülümsetiyor ve epey keyifli bir okuma süreci sunuyor.

Benim keyfimi baltalayan tek ?ey, her cümleye inatla ili?tirilmi? isimler ve tekrarlar oldu. Xu Sanguan'? yüzlerce kez okumaktan nevrim d?ndü mesela.
Ho? Ya?amak'ta b?yle miydi, an?msam?yorum. ?yleyse bile belli ki fark?na varmam??, rahats?z olmam???m.

Neyse ?uraya ba?ka güzel al?nt? b?rak?p gidiyorum:
"Kelimelerle d?vü?meliyiz, silahlarla de?il." Bunun üzerine elindeki b??aklar? ve sopalar? b?rakt? insanlar.

Aa sahi! ?ince asl?ndan ?evrilmesi büyüleyici de?il mi? Ca?n?m yetenekli insanlar?m?z kalp ben. Müthi?.
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894 reviews31 followers
December 13, 2020
“Zafer Lokantas?'n?n yan?ndan ge?erken, lokantan?n mutfa??n?n a??k penceresinden gelen yan?k ya? kokusuyla k?zarm?? domuz ci?eri kokusunu alm??t?. Lokantay? ?oktan ge?ip gitmi? olmas?na ra?men ci?er kokusu ayaklar?ndan geriye do?ru ?ekiyordu onu; i?te o s?rada durdu Xu Sanguan, orada ?ylece durup burun deliklerini ard?na kadar a?arak koklamaya ba?lad? o enfes kokuyu, burnuyla birlikte a?z? da kocaman a??lm??t?.

Dayanamad?, bir tabak domuz ci?eri yiyip iki k?se sar? pirin? lik?rü i?mek i?in can atmaya ba?lad?; gittik?e daha ?ok can? ?ekiyordu, can? bir kez daha kan satmay? ?ekiyordu. Eski günleri hat?rlad? birden, A Fang ve Genlong ile birlikte pencerenin ?nündeki masaya oturmalar?n?, Laixi ve Laishun ile birlikte Huangdian'daki lokantaya gitmelerini, onlar?n masaya vurup ‘Bir tabak k?zarm?? domuz ci?eri, iki kase sar? pirin? lik?rü, lik?r ?l?k olsun...’ ?eklinde bas bas ba??rmalar? canland? g?zlerinin ?nünde. Zafer Lokantas?'n?n kap?s?n?n ?nünde neredeyse be? dakika ?ylece dikildikten sonra hastaneye gidip kan satmaya karar verdi Xu Sanguan, sonra ard?na d?nüp yola koyuldu. On bir y?ld?r kan satmam??t?, o gün kan?n? satacakt? yine, o gün sadece kendisi i?in kan satacakt?, hayat?nda ilk kez kendisi i?in kan satacakt?. i?inden ??yle diyordu kendi kendine: ‘K?zarm?? domuz ci?eri yemekle sar? pirin? lik?rü i?meyi kan satmak i?in yap?yordum eskiden, bugünse k?zarm?? domuz ci?eri yiyip sar? pirin? lik?rü i?ebilmek i?in kan sataca??m.’ B?yle dü?üne dü?üne, yan yana park etmi? olan o iki kamyonun ?nünden ge?ti yine, yeni a??lm?? olan o giyim ma?azas?n?n ve Tianning tap?na??n?n ?nünden yürüdü; kasab? ve saat?i dükk?n?n? da ge?ti, Be? Y?ld?z K?prüsü'nden sonra hastaneye vard?.” (s. 252)
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254 reviews112 followers
August 7, 2023
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????????? ???????? ? ???????? ?? ?? ???? ?? ??? ???? ????? ???????? ?? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ???? ?????? ???? ??????? ????????? ?????? ????? ??? ?... ???? ????. ???????? ?? ?? ???? ?? ???? ?? ??? ????
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483 reviews27 followers
April 7, 2020
Tutti i libri che 'raccontano' in qualche modo la Cina hanno bisogno di un congruo tempo di sedimentazione: le parole devono posarsi leggiadre dentro noi, dipingendo piccoli acquerelli in fondo, solo riflessioni e sorrisi, donati dalla lettura.
Nonostante a volte il racconto sia tragico ai nostri occhi di moderni.
Leggete, guardate, visitate la Cina e sospendete il giudizio, solo un po', è la cosa migliore.
Oggi, di questa lettura, a me resta la tenerezza infinita per Xu Sanguan, il protagonista, eterno ragazzo in fondo, che accetta la sorte con un 'porca puttana' , un piatto di maiale saltato e del vino di miglio, caldo, mi raccomando. Ho sorriso. Poi mi sono resa conto che sì, viaggiando in Cina, soprattutto nelle campagne o nelle periferie delle grandi città, è facile incontrare Felice Uno, Felice Due, Felice Tre e il loro padre che vende il sangue ogni volta che i soldi mancano.
Come al solito, la Storia, quella immensa della Cina ,che è un Paese immenso, viene raccontata sulla pelle (e nel sangue) dei protagonisti che si raccontano e che indicano vie di ricerca per sapere e vedere ciò che fu.
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Author?101 books603 followers
September 15, 2018
Origem do exemplar: Biblioteca.
Língua da edi??o lida: Português.
Tradu??o: Aceitável, nota-se a falta de prática. Revis?o: Medíocre, imensos erros de acentua??o, etc.
Género: Fic??o; literatura; romance.
Avalia??o: Muito bom (4,5*).
Prós: Sentido de humor apurado (se fosse um livro português resultava quase de certeza em faduncho e choradinho); boa capacidade de interpelar a História por meio de um drama familiar; linguagem e estilo diretos, sem palha ou floreados desnecessários.
Contras: Um ou outro episódio a tocar o chav?o e o previsível; técnica romanesca por vezes muito denunciada (para quem lida com literatura, pelo menos).
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325 reviews7 followers
September 12, 2008
The title promises a grand epic, but the novel turns out to be the simple tale of a silk factory worker, Sanguan, his wife, the Dough Queen and his three sons , one of whom, Yile, turns out not to be his son at all.

There is an appealing naievity about the characters. The three friends who, before they sell blood, drink ten bowls of water to make the blood go further. The subsequent meal where a hearty thump on the table and a roared order of fried pig's liver with two glasses of yellow rice wine are a signal to the waiter that these are people used to eating in a restaurant. The wife who publicly and noisily berates her husband for his human failings. The neighbours who flock to listen to, and add commentaries to street arguments by the Dough Queen and her son's father and his wife.

Yet the sweet simplicity of the characters hides some dark undercurrents. The torment of the little boy, Yile, searching for paternal acknowledgment. Yile's distress at being excluded when the rest of the family are treated by Sanguan to a meal of hot noodles, and the Dough Queen's daily disgrace when she is paraded for public vilification by the proponents of the cultural revolution who needed the negative example of a prostitute.

In the end, though, the book sends a message of redemption as Sanguan risks his health selling blood to get medical treatment for the "son" he once refused to buy noodles for. The wife who continually bemoaned her marital lot develops a genuine love for her husband and, when his blood is turned down by the local hospital and he responds by weeping in despair, leads him gently by the arm to the local restaurant and orders pigs liver for him. The three boys grow up, get married, get jobs and turn out well despite their parents.

Really well written, and, despite its simplicity, it packs a powerful punch. For days after reading it, I walked down our tree lined street in Shanghai examining the elderly people lounging round street tables, and wondered how they fared in the cultural revolution. Not a topic one broaches here though, so I'll never know.
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400 reviews55 followers
December 14, 2020
Bir ipek fabrikas?nda ?al??an Xu Sanguan, hastanede ?al??an kan ?efine düzenli ziyaretleriyle ya?am?n? idame ettirmek i?in kan?n? satarak para kazan?r. Kar?s? ve ü? o?lunu ge?indirmek i?in mücadele ederken kan verme ziyaretleri ?lümcül bir ?ekilde s?kla??r. En sevdi?i o?lunun asl?nda kar?s?yla kom?usu aras?ndaki bir ili?kiden do?du?unu ??renince parampar?a olurken, kar?s?n?n bir fahi?e olarak adland?r?lmas?yla en büyük a?a??lanmas?n? ya?ar. Bu kadar ihanetin onu tüketmesine ra?men bütün ??k?? yolunu i?indeki gü?lü kan ba??nda bulur.

Basit ve dolays?z dili ile okunmas? kolay bir roman. Babaya ve evlada ba?l?l???n hikayesi asl?nda. Xu Sanguan, ailesine o kadar ba?l? ki, onlar?n refah?n? sa?lamak i?in neredeyse kendi hayat?n? feda ediyor. Son elli sayfa Xu Sanguan’?n ?lümün e?i?ine gelen korkun? fiziksel ini?ini anlat?yor. Okurken dur art?k yeter diye ba??rmak istedim ona.

Bu kitab? ?in’in en büyük romanlar?ndan biri olarak s?n?fland?rmasam da sonu? olarak unutulmaz bir karakter ile bizi tan??t?rm?? olan bir hik?ye.

Bir tabak k?zarm?? domuz ci?eri, iki kase sar? pirin? lik?rü, lik?r ?l?k olsun!!!
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285 reviews67 followers
May 16, 2019
Yu Hua'dan sayfalar? ard? ard?na ?evirten bir roman daha. Ya?amak kitab?yla tan?nan yazar?n okudu?um bu ü?üncü roman?, ü?ü de birbirinden güzeldi ger?ekten. Masal tad?nda, basit cümlelerle ama etkili bir anlat?m hakim bu kitaba da. Bu kadar mizahi bir dil beklemiyordum, o konuda ?a??rtt? do?rusu. Roman?n sonuna do?ru mizah dozu azal?p dram a??r bast?.

Karakterimiz kitab?n ad?ndan da anla??laca?? üzere ya?ad??? maddi s?k?nt?lar? kan?n? satarak a?maya ?al???yor. Arka plana ?in'in 20. yüzy?l havas? hakim. Cahil insanlar, ta?ra hayat? ve okudu?um ne kadar ?in'e ait roman varsa hepsinin olmazsa olmaz? Kültür Devrimi. Tabi bu o kadar büyük bir olay ki yüz milyonlarca hayat? etkilemi?, dev bir ülkede derin izler b?rakm??, dolay?s?yla illa ki konu d?nüp dola??p bir ?ekilde oraya geliyor. Mo Yan romanlar?nda da hep b?yleydi. Velhas?l kelam Yu Hua iyidir. Onu Jaguar yay?nlar?ndan harika bir ?eviriyle okumak daha da iyidir :)
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501 reviews156 followers
October 3, 2018
ilk yu hua okumam. baslarda keyifli baslayan sonrasinda monotonlastigini dusundugum kitap yaridan sonra muthis iyi ivme kazandi. ozellikle kitlik zamanlari ve degisen siyasi yapinin toplum hayatina ve dolayisiyla ‘kanini satan adam’in ailesine olan etkilerinin anlatildigi kisimlar cok cok etkileyiciydi. sade bir anlatimla oldukca carpici bi hikayeyi sirtlamis “kanini satan adam” ustelik sadece dram yonu degil mizah-kara mizah yonu de cok etkiledi beni. yu hua’nin sevilmesi tesaduf degilmis.

not: yalniz bu cin ve kore edebiyatinda beni en sasirtan detaylardan biri yine bu kitapta da dikkatimi cekti. bu toplumlarda (biz uzak miyiz? asla!) kadina deger verilmemesi, kadinin dusmaninin yine once kadin olmasi, namus kavraminin bizzat insan benliginden one gecmesi.. bu can s?k?c? detay? da yorumsuz olarak belirtmek istedim.
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215 reviews159 followers
October 8, 2018
Yu Hua'n?n ?o?u zaman ac?kl?, bazense e?lenceli bir hayat? bu kadar sade ve ak?c? bir dille anlatabiliyor olmas? bana büyücülük gibi geliyor art?k. Ya?amak'? da ?ok sevmi?tim ama hem karakter geli?imi a??s?ndan hem de dram?n ondaki kadar yo?un olmamas? sebebiyle Kan?n? Satan Adam'? daha ?ok sevdim. Kapa??n güzelli?inden, ?evirinin kusursuzlu?undan yeterince bahsedemem bile. Koca bir hayat yine g?z a??p kapama süresinde okundu ve bitti. Var ol Yu Hua, var ol Erdem Kurtuldu, var ol Jaguar Kitap.

Bu arada kitab? okuyanlar? Kay?p R?ht?m Kitap Kulübü olarak yapaca??m?z sohbete de bekleriz:
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506 reviews159 followers
June 27, 2020
Trent’anni della vita di Xu Sanguan, operaio di un setificio, scorrono in queste pagine insieme alla storia della Cina e agli anni difficili della rivoluzione culturale.
Vendere il sangue aiuta a risolvere i problemi economici e il protagonista lo fa molte volte, pur sapendo che è una pratica che equivale a vendere un dono degli antenati.
Un matrimonio infelice con una donna molto bella, tre figli e la necessità di sfamarli non sembrano fiaccare Xu Sanguan.
L’ironia sfocia spesso nel grottesco, il sorriso si fa amaro.
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116 reviews23 followers
October 7, 2022
☆4.5☆
Scoprire un nuovo autore e poi sentire il bisogno di voler leggere tutta la sua produzione letteraria

"Fin quando ero piccola, mio padre mi diceva che il sangue ci viene dagli antenati. Per vivere uno può vendere frittelle, vendersi la casa, la terra...ma in nessun vaso può vedere il sangue. Vendendo il corpo, vende se stesso. Ma se vende il sangue, vende i suoi avi. Xu Sanguan, tu hai venduto i tuoi antenati!
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100 reviews32 followers
May 12, 2019
Kültür devrimi, yoksulluk, k?tl?k... Kan?n? sat?p ailesini zor zamanlarda desteklemeye ?al??an ipek kozas? fabrikas?nda ?al??an fedak?r bir adam.
Etkileyici, hayat?n i?inden bir hik?ye yal?n bir dille okuyucuya sunulmu?.
Daha ?nce yazar?n Ya?amak adl? kitab?n? okumu?tum.
Yedinci Gün de okuma listemde.
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216 reviews
September 7, 2021
Quattro stelline e mezzo ☆
Trent'anni di storia cinese raccontati attraverso la figura di Xu Sanguan, uno dei protagonisti più splendidamente scritti che abbia mai avuto il piacere di leggere.
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974 reviews10 followers
January 20, 2023
Yu Hua dipana una saga famigliare di straordinario impatto, una storia lunga trent’anni che si affianca e intreccia con la storia cinese - ripercorrendone alcune tappe fondamentali - e lo fa con uno stile bislacco dall’ironia dissacrante, alternando pagine di situazioni grottesche e crudeli ad altre dove l’atmosfera è più distesa e ti strappa un sorriso.
Attraverso il disagio economico e sociale della famiglia di Xu Sanguan e alla scelta non convenzionale di quest’ultimo del ricorrere alla vendita del sangue nelle situazioni di “emergenza”, assistiamo alle condizioni in cui versava la Cina ai tempi di Mao Zedong.
Non nutrivo alcun tipo di aspettativa su questo romanzo, perciò trovarmi dinanzi a una vicenda di questo tipo mi ha stupita in positivo. Si tratta di un libro dolceamaro che non lascia indifferenti tanto per le vessazioni subite dai personaggi, quanto per le avversità che si è disposti ad affrontare pur di garantire il “benessere” e la coesione della propria famiglia.
Sicuramente è servito ad accendere un interesse nei confronti della letteratura contemporanea cinese e nel voler approfondire il resto della produzione di Yu Hua.
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501 reviews197 followers
September 19, 2020
“Baba, beni eri?te yeme?e mi g?türüyorsun?”
S?vüp saymas? biten Xu Sanguan nazik bir tav?rla yan?t verdi.
“贰惫别迟.”
5/5??????????
Ya?amak kitab?yla kalemiyle tan??t???m Yu Hua’dan ikinci kitab?m Kan?n? Satan Adam’?n yorumuyla herkese merhabalar! Yazardan okudu?um ilk kitab?n? hi? beklemedi?im bir ?ekilde her sayfas?n? hayran kalarak okumam?n ard?ndan bir di?er eseri i?in sab?rs?zlan?yordum. Kan?n? Satan Adam kitab?n?n Güney Kore yap?m? film uyarlamas?n? g?rmü?tüm hatta dizi film ?evirmenli?i yapt???m sitede filmin konusunu ?evirdi?imde konusu ?ok garibime gitmi?ti. Tabi o zamanlar edebiyata ilgim s?f?r seviyesindeyken seneler sonra kitab?n? okuyaca??mdan habersizdim. Yu Hua’n?n dingin ve bir o kadar derinden etkileyen kalemi bu kitapta da dolu dizgin yerini alm??t?. Olduk?a ak?c? ve h?zl? bir anlat?mla konuyu ele almas?na ra?men karakterleri bir anda okurla yak?nla?t?r?yor. Dram?, duygusall???, acizli?i ve samimi mutlulu?u ?yle güzel ve unutulmaz bir kalemle yaz?yor ki kitap bitmesin diye günlere b?ldüm. Baz? sat?rlardaki duygu yo?unlu?u adeta i?ime akt?. Xu Sanguan ile büyük o?lu aras?ndaki ili?ki kelimelerle ifade edilemeyecek kadar anlaml?yd?. ?in edebiyat?ndan ?ok fazla ?rnekle kar??la?mad?m henüz ve günümüze bakt???m?zda politik a??dan yapt?klar? bir?ok ?ey hem etiklik hem de insanl?k olarak yanl?? olsa da tarihleri benim her zaman ?ok ilgimi ?ekmi?tir. ?zellikle a?l?kla sava?lar? insan? derinden etkiliyor. Kesinlikle okuman?z? ?neririm. Yazardan henüz okumad???m birka? kitab?m daha oldu?u i?in ?ok mutluyum. Yazar?n bu kitab? da inan?lmaz güzeldi ama Ya?amak kitab? kendisinden okudu?um ilk kitap oldu?u i?in yeri sars?lmazd?. Sizlere de keyifli okumalar dilerim..
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659 reviews596 followers
February 13, 2019
?in’in kültür devrimi ve k?tl?k zaman?nda toplumdaki y?k?m?, aile ?l?e?indeyse fedakar bir baban?n ailesi i?in neler yapabilece?ini g?steriyor. Ama bu sefer ya?amak kadar sert de?il zira ailenin hayat? biraz kara mizah e?li?inde akt??? i?in, zaman zaman manas?z bir gülümsemeye dahi neden olabiliyor.
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647 reviews190 followers
July 19, 2019
?ncelikle Jaguar kitaba ve mutlu az?nl??a binlerce te?ekkürler!

Yu Hua’ dan okudu?um 3. Kitap ve yine beni hi? yan?ltmayan harika bir okumayd?!

Aile ve baba-o?ul ili?kileri ile Do?u kültürü ve pek tabii ki ?in tarihi üzerine de?indi?i noktalarla muazzamd?.

Yile’ nin eri?te u?runa baba kabul etmesi ise bence insanl???n en büyük ?aresizli?inden birinin a?l?k oldu?unun net g?stergesiydi.

Yu Hua’ n?n usta kalemi ve enfes anlat?m?ndan mahrum kalmay?n?z.

O güzelim kapak tasar?m? ve üzerinde ?al???lm?? ?eviri i?in Jaguar kitaba ?ok te?ekkürler!

Keyifli okumalar!
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172 reviews
September 20, 2018
Jaguar Kitap’tan yay?nlanan ilk kitab? ?Ya?amak? bana g?re daha iyi bir kitap olsa da ?Kan?n? Satan Adam? da yer yer üzücü yer yer ise insan? e?lendiren, güldüren bir kitap. Yu Hua, takip listesine ald???m yazarlardan oldu. Jaguar Kitap’a bizi ?ince’den ?eviriyle Hua ile tan??t?rd??? i?in sonsuz te?ekkürler. Ufak bir ?nerim olacak, Yu Hua’n?n bu kitab?n? okumak isteyenler bence ?nce ?Ya?amak? kitab?n? okumal?.
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373 reviews11 followers
June 24, 2023
Yu Hua'dan daha ?nce iki kitap okumu? biri olarak Kan?n? Satan Adam'?n da olduk?a dramatik olaca??n? dü?ünmü?tüm ama beni yan?ltt?. Olduk?a ak?c? bir kitapt?; ilk yar?s?nda sinirli, ikinci yar?s?nda duygusal bir ?ekilde okudum. Unutmayaca??m kitaplardan biri oldu.
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