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Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
Category: Fiction
The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy. His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China. During a blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, villagers sell their blood, their coffins, and then arrange marriages for their own dead family members ...Show more
Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke
Category: Fiction
Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan's Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is ins ...Show more
Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke
Category: Fiction
The five major religions collide in an exploration of spirituality and gender fluidity in a novel imbued with celebrated Chinese author Yan Lianke's distinctive wit and humour. The Heart Sutra is the most mysterious scripture in Chinese Buddhism. In Yan Lianke's new novel, disciples of China's five main ...Show more
Lenin's Kisses by Yan Lianke
Category: Fiction
Lenin's Kisses is a brilliant novel about modern China. Blind, deaf, and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven enjoy a peaceful lifestyle, spared from the government's watchful eye. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out the grain crops, a county official convinces the villagers to ...Show more
Marrow by Yan Lianke
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
In a small village in the Balou Mountains, Fourth Wife You despairs of what the future holds for her four mentally-impaired children. A cure for the family curse appears, but it will extract a price so primal and complete that no one can be expected to make it except, perhaps, for a mother. A chilling a ...Show more
The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke; Carlos Rojas (Translator)
Category: Fiction
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 pres ...Show more
The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke
Category: Fiction
"The village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new significance as the community grows explosively. Three major families:linked by a complex web of loyalty, betrayal, desire and ambition:are the drivin ...Show more
The Four Books by Yan Lianke; Translated by Carlos Rojas
Category: Fiction
Yan Lianke's most powerful novel yet. Reminiscent of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Darkness at Noon, Yan's mythical tale portrays the grotesque persecution during the Great Leap Forward. In the ninety-ninth district of a labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician un ...Show more
The Years, Months, Days by Yan Lianke
Category: Fiction
The Years, Months, Days is a profound and moving fable about the deep love between an old man and his blind dog trying to survive in a terrible drought - there is no food, the villagers have left, but the old man has managed to nurture a corn seed that has germinated on a mountain top. He is devoted to ...Show more
Three Brothers: Memories of My Family by Yan Lianke
Category: Biography
A powerful and intimate memoir about childhood, family and politics during the Cultural Revolution, from one of China's most important contemporary voices. With his quick wit and gift for metaphor, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his home of the 1960s and early 70s in rural Henan Province. Yan's is a ...Show more
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