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Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the people is a story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful division commander in Communist China, and her household's lowly servant, Wu Dawang.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China's most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died--winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels--is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Yan Lianke―“China’s most feted and most banned author” (Financial Times)―is a master of imaginative satire, and his prize-winning works have been published around the world to the highest honors. Now, his two most acclaimed novellas are collected here in a single volume―masterfully crafted stories that explore the sacrifices made for family, the driving will to survive, and the longing to leave behind a personal legacy. Marrow is the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Man Booker International finalist Yan Lianke has been lauded for his imaginative satire and insightful cultural critique as "one of China's greatest living authors" (Guardian). His internationally bestselling new novel, The Explosion Chronicles, follows the excessive expansion of a rural community from small village to megalopolis. With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Yan boldly plunges into the psychic gap between China's decades-old conditioned response to communist doctrine and its redefinition of itself as a capitalist power, creating with bold, carnivalesque strokes a heartbreaking story of greed, corruption, andthe dangers of utopia.
"A mystifying climatic incongruity begins the award-winning novel Lenin’s Kisses—an absurdist, tragicomic masterpiece set in modern day China. Nestled deep within the Balou...
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