Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016
‘One of China’s greatest living authors and fiercest satirists’ Guardian
In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099569497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099569493 |
| Author: | Yan Lianke |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Arch and playful… [Yan Lianke] deploys offbeat humour, anarchic set pieces and surreal imagery to shed new light on dark episodes from modern Chinese history… A brave, brilliant novel
Arch and playful… [Yan Lianke] deploys offbeat humour, anarchic set pieces and surreal imagery to shed new light on dark episodes from modern Chinese history… A brave, brilliant novel – David Evans * Financial Times *
It’s a Chinese novel hailed across the planet as a masterpiece, and I’m normally the first to resist such an imposition before I’ve even opened the thing – but for once, the hype doesn’t go far enough… a devastating, brilliant slice of living history – Kate Saunders * The Times *
No other writer in today’s China has so consistently explored, dissected and mocked the past six and a half decades of Chinese communist rule… it is an extraordinary novel – Isobel Hilton * Observer *
One of the masters of modern Chinese literature – Jung Chang
Stark, powerful and compelling… A privilege * Independent *
A searing, allegorical view of Chinese society during some of the darkest moments of the Mao era… . Yan cements his reputation as one of China’s most important—and certainly most fearless—living writers * Kirkus *
Yan’s new work is vital historical testimony * Library Journal, US *
A biting satire about Chinese re-education camps during the Great Leap Forward that’s as haunting as it is eye-opening * Publishers Weekly *
One of the masters of modern Chinese literature, Yan Lianke gives all the pleasures one gets from reading. He can extract humour from the bleakest situation. I whole-heartedly recommend this latest book – Jung Chang
A rich reading experience and much light shed on this catastrophic period of Chinese history – 4 stars * New Internationalist *
About The Author
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.
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