Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the
author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including
Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, Lenin's Kisses, The Four
Books, The Explosion Chronicles and The Day the Sun Died. He has
been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao
She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the
Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the
International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for
Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer
Fund Emerging Voices Award and the prix Femina Étranger. The Day
the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's
Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in
Beijing.
Yan Lianke's cover artwork features the work of leading
contemporary Chinese artists. Turn to the final pages to learn more
about them.
A winner of the Kafka Prize and a frequently cited contender for
the Nobel, Yan is one of those rare geniuses who finds in the
peculiar absurdities of his own culture the absurdities that infect
all cultures
*Washington Post*
Yan Lianke, one of the most important literary interpreters of
contemporary China, combines shocking satire and sharp imagery to
address the moral vacuum at the heart of the country's
extraordinary transformation
*1843*
Yan Lianke's powerful dystopian novel, narrated by a teenage boy,
is set during a single night in a remote Chinese village... The
underlying political message, that China is sleepwalking to
disaster under President Xi Ping, could hardly be plainer... But
there is so much colour in the book, as the sleepwalkers act more
and more oddly, that politics seems secondary. Poignant and
unsettling
*Mail on Sunday*
Masterful...a brave and unforgettable novel, full of tragic poise
and political resonance, masterfully shifting between genres and
ways of storytelling, exploring the ways in which history and
memory are resurrected, how dark, private desires seep or flood
out
*Irish Times*
A remarkable novel – open, like most good novels, to a variety of
interpretations. The events described are incredible; the
atmosphere all too believable
*Scotsman*
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