The Four Books by Yan Lianke
In 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 behaviour and confiscating books.
Arch and playful.. [Yan Lianke] deploys offbeat humour, anarchic set pieces and surreal imagery to shed new light on dark episodes from modern Chinese history... A brave, brilliant novel -- David Evans * Financial Times *
It’s a Chinese novel hailed across the planet as a masterpiece, and I’m normally the first to resist such an imposition before I’ve even opened the thing – but for once, the hype doesn’t go far enough... a devastating, brilliant slice of living history -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
No other writer in today's China has so consistently explored, dissected and mocked the past six and a half decades of Chinese communist rule... it is an extraordinary novel -- Isobel Hilton * Observer *
One of the masters of modern Chinese literature -- Jung Chang
Stark, powerful and compelling... A privilege * Independent *
It’s a Chinese novel hailed across the planet as a masterpiece, and I’m normally the first to resist such an imposition before I’ve even opened the thing – but for once, the hype doesn’t go far enough... a devastating, brilliant slice of living history -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
No other writer in today's China has so consistently explored, dissected and mocked the past six and a half decades of Chinese communist rule... it is an extraordinary novel -- Isobel Hilton * Observer *
One of the masters of modern Chinese literature -- Jung Chang
Stark, powerful and compelling... A privilege * Independent *
Yan Lianke is the author of works including Dream of Ding Village, The Day the Sun Died, The Four Books, Three Brothers and Hard Like Water. He has been awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Royal Society of Literature International Writer Lifetime Award, and was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He has received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award. He was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099569497 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099569493 |
| Title | The Four Books |
| Author | Yan Lianke |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK) |
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