Lianke Yan
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Yan Lianke"Chinas most feted and most banned author" (Financial Times)is a master of imaginative satire, and his prize-winning works have been published around the world to the highest honors. Now, his two most acclaimed novellas are collected here in a single volumemasterfully crafted stories that explore the sacrifices made for family, the driving will to survive, and the longing to leave behind a personal legacy.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At 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-gather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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 the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels--is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Returning to his village invigorated by success in the army, Gao Aijun sees the beautiful Xia Hongmei walking barefoot alongside the railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and is instantly smitten. Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the struggle to bring revolution to their backwater village. They wait to consummate their relationship until Aijun has managed to dig a literal tunnel of love between their...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling reeducation compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies. They are forced to carry out grueling physical work and are encouraged to inform on each other for dissident behavior. The prize: winning the chance at freedom. They're overseen by preadolescent supervisor, the Child, who delights in reward systems and excessive punishments. When agricultural...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and '70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, as well as his own. Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he dreams of fried scallion buns, and once steals from his father...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher,Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke's most important novel to date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling ring in contemporary China. Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China,Dream of Ding Village is the result of three years...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Man Booker International finalist Yan Lianke has been lauded for his imaginative satire and insightful cultural critique as "one of China's greatest living authors" (Guardian). His internationally bestselling new novel, The Explosion Chronicles, follows the excessive expansion of a rural community from small village to megalopolis. With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a...
17) Lenin's kisses
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Yan boldly plunges into the psychic gap between China's decades-old conditioned response to communist doctrine and its redefinition of itself as a capitalist power, creating with bold, carnivalesque strokes a heartbreaking story of greed, corruption, and the dangers of utopia.
Author
Publisher
Yunnan ren min chu ban she
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文
Description
Ben shu shi yi ben zhongguo dang dai chang pian xiao shuo. "Jian ying ru shui" shi wen hua da ge ming qian jian liang ge zao fan pai de dou zheng shi he luo man shi. Fu yuan jun ren Gap aijun hui dao jia xiang, Song dai li xue da ru Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao de gu li Chenggang zhen nao ge ming, yu dang di fu nu Xia Hongmei yi jian zhong qing. Liang ren bu gu yi hun shen fen, yan ru feng kuang de re lian, tong shi ta men de ge ming da ye ye hong honh huo...
