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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 people have enough food and leisure to be content—until their crops and livelihood are obliterated by a snowstorm in ... Read more

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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 people have enough food and leisure to be content—until their crops and livelihood are obliterated by a snowstorm in
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Dream of Ding Village

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"A brilliant and harrowing novel" about a deadly epidemic fueled by corruption, based on real-life events in China ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China. The novel is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well ... Read more

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The Family Plot

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“Yan’s storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible quality.”—NPRThe brilliant and highly resonant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers, exploring a son, father, and mother all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one family member’s lifeIn Gaotian Town on China’s Central Plains, one perfectly normal working-class family is aspiring to ... Read more

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“Yan’s storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible quality.”—NPRThe brilliant and highly resonant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers, exploring a son, father, and mother all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one family member’s lifeIn Gaotian Town on China’s Central Plains, one perfectly normal working-class family is aspiring to
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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 and he was awarded the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize for his impressive body of work. Now, for the first time ... Read more

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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 and he was awarded the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize for his impressive body of work. Now, for the first time
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Three Brothers

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From the Franz Kafka Prize–winning author. "Full of love, sorrow, and tenderness . . . a deeply heartfelt account of his family in the 1960s and 70s." —Xiaolu Guo, award-winning author of Nine ContinentsWith lyricism and deep emotion, Yan Lianke chronicles the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, as well as his own during the Cultural Revolution. Living in a remote village, Yan's parents ... Read more

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Serve the People!

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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 young wife of a Division Commander in Communist China, and a servant in her household, Wu Dawang. Left to idle at home while her husband furthers the revolution, Liu
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Hard Like Water

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Heart Sutra

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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 on the campus of Beijing’s National Politics University, disciples of China’s five main religions—Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam ... Read more

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The Four Books

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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. Here, the Musician and her lover, the Scholar, along with the Author and the Theologian, are subjected to ... Read more

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The Family Plot

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“Yan’s storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible quality.”—NPRThe brilliant and highly resonant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers, exploring a son, father, and mother all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one family member’s lifeIn Gaotian Town on China’s Central Plains, one perfectly normal working-class family is aspiring to ... Read more

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“Yan’s storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible quality.”—NPRThe brilliant and highly resonant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers, exploring a son, father, and mother all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one family member’s lifeIn Gaotian Town on China’s Central Plains, one perfectly normal working-class family is aspiring to
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The Explosion Chronicles

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"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 ago by refugees fleeing a seismic volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new ... Read more

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