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"Yan is one of those rare geniuses who finds in the peculiar absurdities of his own culture the absurdities that infect all cultures." -The Washington Post
From the Kafka Prize winner and two-time Booker Prize finalist, this is a gripping and bitingly satirical story of ambition and betrayal, following two young communist revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them apart from their traditionally minded village as the Cultural Revolution sweeps...
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Los besos de Lenin es una de las obras más celebradas de la literatura contemporánea China, y Yan Lianke uno de los autores chinos vivos más célebres e independientes del país, galardonado por esta obra con los prestigiosos premios Lu Xun y Lao She. Los besos de Lenin fue también finalista del "Man Booker International en 2013".
El libro, editado por primera vez en España y traducido directamente desde el chino, constituye una fábula satírica...
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En un pequeño pueblo de la sierra de Balou vive el joven Li Niannian, de catorce años. Una tarde, después de ponerse el sol, Niannian se da cuenta de que algo inusual está sucediendo. Los aldeanos parecen actuar dormidos; uno tras otro, van cayendo en un extraño episodio de sonambulismo colectivo. Ante los ojos del muchacho, da comienzo un desfile de vecinos que, como víctimas de una extraña epidemia, se levantan en mitad de la oscura noche...
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From master storyteller Yan Lianke, winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, The Four Books is a powerful, daring novel of the dog-eat-dog psychology inside a labor camp for intellectuals during Mao's Great Leap Forward. A renowned author in China, and among its most censored, Yan's mythical, sometimes surreal tale cuts to the bone in its portrayal of the struggle between authoritarian power...
5) Heart Sutra
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From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priestAt 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...
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An unforgettable tale of a village that descends into a sleepwalking spell as the sun threatens to never rise again, by the author of Discovering Fiction.
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...
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