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Yan Lianke - Four Books, E-bok

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Four Books

Av Yan Lianke

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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 behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the ‘three bitter years’, the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive. Divided into four narratives, The Four Books tells the story of the Great Famine, one of China’s most devastating and controversial periods. WINNER OF THE FRANZ KAFKA PRIZE 2014NOMINATED FOR CZECH AWARD MAGNESIA LITERA 2014HUA ZHONG WORLD CHINESE LITERATURE PRIZE 2013FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013WINNER OF THE HUA ZHONG WORLD CHINESE LITERATURE PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2012SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2012SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE 2011WINNER OF THE LAO SHE LITERATURE AWARD 2004WINNER OF THE LU XUN AWARD 1997
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-03-19
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781446484746
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • Utmärkelser: Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK)
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Yan Lianke is the author of works including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles and The Day the Sun Died. 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 honours, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award. He was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China.

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"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... 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 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... an extraordinary novel" -- Isobel Hilton Observer "One of the masters of modern Chinese literature" -- Jung Chang "A searing, allegorical view of Chinese society during some of the darkest moments of the Mao era... Yan cements his reputation as one of China's most important-and certainly most fearless-living writers" Kirkus

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