![]() ![]() The truck is carrying apples, and as it rumbles down the road the driver invites the young man to take one, if he likes. He finds a stopped truck and offers the driver a cigarette-that should work! -but the driver takes the cigarette and then says “Fuck off.” The young man decides to climb into the truck’s cab anyway, ready to explain that, “you did take my cigarette!”-and is surprised when the driver accepts his entry without comment. He tries to hitchhike but cars just whiz by, ignoring him. He leaves home on foot, not quite sure where he is headed but wanting to get somewhere. The first of his works to draw much attention was the short story On the Long Road at Eighteen, a surrealist account of a young man as he discovers that the world makes no sense. In the mid-1980s, “bored with pulling teeth,” he began writing stories. YU HUA, BORN in 1960, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, and a witness to chilling cruelties during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, worked as a dentist for about five years after he graduated from high school in 1977. ![]()
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