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Tag Archives: Yan Lianke

Heart Sutra

From “China’s foremost literary satirist” (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing…

Hard Like Water

From a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed “China’s most controversial novelist” by the New Yorker, a gripping and biting story of ambition and betrayal, following…

Three Brothers

The English-language nonfiction debut one of China’s most highly regarded writers, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker…

The Day the Sun Died

From “China’s most feted and most banned author” (Financial Times), an unforgettable tale of a village that descends into a sleepwalking spell as the…

The Years, Months, Days

From “one of China’s most successful writers” (The New Yorker), two masterful novellas exploring the stigma of mental illness, the sacrifices made for family,…

Serve the People!

“Yan Lianke’s Serve the People! is a scathing sendup of life in 1960s China during the chaos of the country’s Cultural Revolution. . ….

Lenin’s Kisses

A fiercely satirical story of greed and corruption from “one of China’s most successful fiction writers” (The New York Times).

The Four Books

Man Booker International Prize finalist Yan Lianke’s most powerful and searing novel yet, about the persecution of intellectuals in a reeducation camp during the…

The Explosion Chronicles

With his distinctive style that blends mythology and realism, satire and fantasy, Yan Lianke—one of the most acclaimed Chinese writers of his generation—returns with…

Dream of Ding Village

“A sorrowful but captivating novel about the price of progress in modern China. The book, which was censored in that country, builds to an act of violence that resonates with the impact of Greek tragedy or Shakespearean drama.” —Kirkus Reviews…