Serve the People!

<i>Serve the People!</i> is a great opportunity to dip your head into a very different cultural space. It’s sharp, fresh, sexy, funny and highly recommended.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *<br />Censorship guaranteed its popularity, though it shouldn’t obscure the book’s talents…a witty and subversive erotic satire.’ * Age *
Yan is a poetic and passionate writer, and even his skewering of the idiocies and hypocrisies of the Great Revolution, although surgically precise, are witty and lighthearted. His novel can be read in one sitting and in fact the story is so entertaining, and so deftly told, that it is difficult not to do so.’ * Courier Mail *<br />A very funny, sexy, satire.’ * Independent on Sunday *
Yan Lianke's slim novel drips with the kind of satire that can only come from deep within the machinery of Chinese communism.’ * Financial Times *<br />Part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. It lets the reader see—or rather, intuit—what jokes Chinese officials don’t consider funny. Yan Lianke builds his story speedily and sparely…his story is memorable and strange.’ * New York Times *
`Serve the People! is a wonderfully biting satire, brimming with absurdity, humor and wit…the novel is exuberantly drawn in several shades of revolutionary (or should that be Revlon?) red.’ * LA Times *

Yan Lianke is the author of works including Dream of Ding Village, The Day the Sun Died, The Four Books, Three Brothers, and Hard Like Water. He has been awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Royal Society of Literature International Writer Lifetime Award, and was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He has received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award. He was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China.

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