The Family Plot
$29.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
A son who wants to kill his father. A father who wants to kill his wife. A wife who wants to kill her only son.
In Gaotian Town, Central Plains, China, a family lives in abject poverty. The son dreams of going to America, while his father fantasizes about building a new house. His long-suffering mother worries about her only child’s waywardness. All of them want to kill each other.
Class tensions run high in Gaotian Town. Mr. and Mrs. Home Appliances are the wealthiest and mos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923670204 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923670204 |
| Author: | Yan Lianke |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
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Yan Lianke
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.
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright, and International Booker Prize-longlisted literary translator who has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including Yan Lianke’s memoir The Women. Originally from Singapore, Tiang now lives in Flushing, Queens.
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