Mischief maker

Yu Hua revels in his exposes of the good, the bad and the ugly in his novel Brothers and its sequel. Chitralekha Basu and Yang Guang report

After watching Spain upstage Netherlands at the World Cup final in South Africa, the novelist Yu Hua is contemplating a career switch to sports journalism.

"It's enough to write eight to 10 novels in a lifetime," Yu, now at work on his sixth, says.