Yan Lianke

• Feb-2008
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A satirical novel set in 1967 China from the Franz Kafka Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Kiss -- “one of China’s greatest living authors” (The Guardian).  Serve the People! is the story of a forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the yo...

• Jan-2011
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Banned in China, Dream of Ding Village is acclaimed Chinese novelist Yan Lianke’s most important and controversial novel to date-- a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing--and what happens to those who get in the w...

• Oct-2012
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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 mountains, spared from the government’s watchful eye, the harmonious peop...

• Feb-2015
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From master storyteller Yan Lianke, winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, "The Four Books" is a powerful, daring novel of the dog-eat-dog psychology inside a labor camp for intellectuals du...

• Sep-2016
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Palou Tiange slowly unfolds as a story of grotesque cannibalism in a small village in the Palou Mountains, Henan province. In the story, a mother takes extreme measures to try to cure her children from a psychiatric illness. First, she feeds them a m...

• Oct-2016
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With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees fleeing a seismic volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new significance as the c...

• Dec-2017
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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 col...

• Dec-2018
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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―winn...

• Jun-2021
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“Yan is one of those rare geniuses who finds in the peculiar absurdities of his own culture the absurdities that infect all cultures.” -- The Washington Post From the Kafka Prize winner and two-time Booker Prize finalist, this is a gripping and ...

• Mar-2023
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From “China’s foremost literary satirist” (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priestAt the Religious Training Center o...