6 must-read china books like The April 3rd Incident by Yu Hua

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Similar categories in Henry James's Daisy Miller book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• short stories
• fiction

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

Similar categories in Magda Szabó's Iza's Ballad book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• fiction

"Niçin sevilen varlıkların yitirilmesi gerekiyor?"

-Magda Szabó, Iza's Ballad

"She didn’t really like classical music and there was no Vince to whisper in her ear and tell her what was beautiful about it. His descriptions were so clear. Handel was all scarlet ostrich feathers a…"

-Magda Szabó, Iza's Ballad

Similar categories in José Emilio Pacheco's Las batallas en el desierto book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• short stories
• fiction

"Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoníaco es el odio."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Qué estupidez meterme en un lío que pude haber evitado con sólo resistirme a mi imbécil declaración de amor.Todo pasó como pasan los discos en la sinfonola."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

Similar categories in None's Daytripper book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

"And sometimes we die to prove that we lived."

-None, Daytripper

"It's strange being famous. People think they know you."

-None, Daytripper

"He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return."

-None, Daytripper

"She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak."

-None, Daytripper

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Eve's Hollywood book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• short stories

Similar categories in B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

Similar categories in Juan Rulfo's El gallo de oro book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

Similar categories in Mercè Rodoreda's Death in Spring book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's Strange Weather in Tokyo book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

Similar categories in Han Kang's Greek Lessons book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• fiction

"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• short stories
• fiction

"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Similar categories in Hiroko Oyamada's The Hole book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

Similar categories in Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• fiction

"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

Similar categories in Jessica Au's Cold Enough for Snow book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• short stories
• fiction

Similar categories in Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

Similar categories in Roberto Bolaño's Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• short stories
• fiction

"Si el Paraíso, para ser Paraíso, propicia un vasto Infierno, el deber del poeta es convertir el Paraíso en Infierno"

-Roberto Bolaño, Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

Similar categories in Kōtarō Isaka's Three Assassins book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

"All the knowledge and science that human beings have, it only helps humans. Get it? No living thing in the world besides humans is happy that humans exist."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• short stories
• fiction

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's Dead-End Memories: Stories book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• short stories
• fiction

"There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up."

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

"Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal."

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

"Anyone seeing us would have thought we were newlyweds, or a nice cohabiting couple. But we were only two people, a little regretful, and soon to part. We were having so much fun. It made me sad."

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

"The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of m…"

-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

Similar categories in Ye Chun's Hao: Stories book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• china
• short stories
• fiction

Similar categories in Liu Xinwu's The Wedding Party book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• china
• fiction

Similar categories in Shin Kyung-Sook's Violets book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"

-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets

Similar categories in Te-Ping Chen's Land of Big Numbers: Stories book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• china
• short stories
• fiction

"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

"She laughed a lot, and easily. It wasn't until we actually became friends that I realized she was often very sad. America is like that, I must say, free and easy until you know better."

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

"A great wasteland of sorrow was opening up in him, unfolding dozens of tiny shacks, terrible squatters setting up residence, banging their miniature liquor bottles against his chest, a hundred feet t…"

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Inside Man book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• short stories
• fiction

"Better the devil you know, so allow me to introduce myself: I'm the Devil."

-K.J. Parker, Inside Man

"He looks at me as though he's just bitten an apple in a garden and found me there."

-K.J. Parker, Inside Man

Similar categories in Sanmao's Stories of the Sahara book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• china
• short stories

"Humans are really strange. when no one validates you, you often can't perceive your own value."

-Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara

"I wanted a taste of many different lives, sophisticated or simple, highbrow or low. Only then would this journey be worthwhile. (Although perhaps a life plain as porridge would never be an option for…"

-Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara

Similar categories in Pik-Shuen Fung's Ghost Forest book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• china
• fiction

"I learned that it is important to be true to yourself. Many people do whatever society tells them to do. They’ve lost themselves. I grew up with Confucian values, and they are limiting. I focused onl…"

-Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's The Book of X book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• fiction

Similar categories in Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident book and Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident

• literature
• chinese literature
• short stories
• fiction
• china