Yan Lianke: 7 books
by Yan Lianke
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Known for his controversial and experimental novels, the author of The Day the Sun Died delivers a scathing portrayal of China’s moral failings.
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China. The novel...
by Yan Lianke
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
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...
by Yan Lianke
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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 young wife of a Division Commander in Communist China,...
The Years, Months, Days
Two Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Over the last decade, Yan Lianke has been continually heralded as one of the “best contemporary Chinese writers” (The Independent) and “one of the country’s fiercest satirists” (The Guardian). Among many awards and honors, he has been twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize...
The Explosion Chronicles
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master” follows a rural community’s transformation from small village to megalopolis (The Economist**).**
With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium...
Lenin's Kisses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This “blistering satire” of modern China was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and a New York Times Editor’s Choice novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Lenin’s Kisses is set in modern day China, in the village of Liven. Nestled within the Balou Mountains, the...
The Four Books
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
From the Franz Kafka Prize–winning author of Lenin’s Kiss, a “stupendous and unforgettable” novel of Mao’s China (The Times, London).
In the ninety-ninth district of a re-education compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies....