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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 sun threatens to never rise again

Traducere din limba chineza si note de Smaragdina Bufna si Ana Zavate In slujba poporului, o parodie savuroasa si subversiva a cultului personalitatii in timpul Revolutiei Culturale, a fost interzisa in China pe motivul ca „este insultatoare la adresa lui Mao Zedong si a armatei si la limita pornografiei”. In slujba poporului (2005) se caracterizeaza prin aceeasi dimensiune iconoclasta: Wu Dawang, ordonanta si bucata­­rul unui comandant de...

La muerte recorre las calles de la otrora próspera aldea Ding. Sus habitantes desaparecen igual que las hojas de los árboles en otoño. Una extraña fiebre se lleva sus vidas. Es la enfermedad de quienes hace ocho años vendieron su sangre por unas pocas monedas. Narrada por el pequeño Xiao Qiang, esta novela, de una sobrecogedora belleza, nos adentra en la historia de la aldea Ding, una de tantas afectadas por el escándalo de la sangre contamina...

A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEDeep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. With the money, he intends to buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia and install it in a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this sleepy district.

China's most controversial novelist on one of the biggest scandals in recent Chinese history - his defining work.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016'One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists' GuardianIn 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 behaviou...

A mystifying climatic incongruity begins the award-winning novel Lenin's Kisses--an absurdist, tragicomic masterpiece set in modern day China. Nestled deep within the Balou mountains, spared from the government's watchful eye, the harmonious people of Liven had enough food and leisure to be fully content. But when their crops and livelihood are obliterated by a seven-day snowstorm in the middle of a sweltering summer, a county official arrives...

First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Corsair"--T.p. verso.

In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling reeducation compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen and affirm their loyalty to Communist ideologies. Here, in this isolated part of Henan province, the Musician and her lover, the Scholar-along with the Author and the Theologian-are forced to carry out grueling physical work and are encouraged to inform on each other for dissident behavior. The prize: winning politica...

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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 ...

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The Explosion Chronicles is impressive and its fictional universe vividly drawn . . . I can think of few better novelists than Yan, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth." -Jiayang Fan, New York Times Book Review

Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the People! is a beautifully told, wickedly daring story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful Division Commander in Communist China, and her household's lowly servant, Wu Dawang. When Liu Lian establishes a rule for her orderly that he is to attend to her needs whenever the household's wooden Serve the People! sign is removed from its usual place,...