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Lenin's Kisses
Published 24 October 2012
ISBN 9781922079435
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 560pp
AU Price $27.99
NZ Price $35.00

Lenin's Kisses

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24 Oct 2012
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24 Oct 2012
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Lenin's Kisses is a brilliant novel about modern China. Blind, deaf, and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven enjoy a peaceful lifestyle, spared from the government's watchful eye. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out the grain crops, a county official convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show showcasing their disabilities. With the money, he intends to buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from Russia and install it in a mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to the sleepy district.
Lenin's Kisses is a rollicking tragicomedy with a cast of moving characters—a cautionary tale of the all-consuming desire for power and wealth from one of China's most respected and celebrated writers
Published 24 October 2012
ISBN 9781922079435
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 560pp
AU Price $27.99
NZ Price $35.00

About the author

Yan Lianke

Yan Lianke has been called a 'master of imaginative satire' and named 'one of China's most successful fiction writers' by the New York Times. His satirical stories with often sensitive subjects have led to the banning of some of his works, including his novellaServe the People and the novel Dream of Ding Village. Yan's surrealist writing oscillates between military themes and the Chinese countryside, which lend the often absurdly miserable living conditions of rural life an equally surreal setting.
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Also by Yan Lianke

Heart Sutra
Hard Like Water
Three Brothers
The Day the Sun Died
The Years, Months, Days
The Explosion Chronicles
The Four Books
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Praise for Lenin's Kisses

'The novel's depth lies in its ability to express an unbearable sorrow, even while constantly making the reader laugh out loud...a truly miraculous novel.' Hong Kong Ming Pao Weekly

PRH, PRH

'Yan Lianke sees and describes his characters with great tenderness...this talented and sensitive writer exposes the absurdity of our time.' La Croix

PRH, PRH

'Yan Lianke weaves a passionate satire of today's China, a marvellous circus where the one-eyed-man is king...Brutal. And wickedly funny.' L'Express

PRH, PRH

'One of China's most successful fiction writers.' New York Times

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Praise for Dream of Ding Village

PRH, PRH

'Dream of Ding Village paints a riveting and disturbing portrait of village life in the grip of epidemic...as an exposé of mind-boggling greed, corruption and failure of government in the spread of AIDS through blood-selling, Ding Village is powerful and peerless.' Sydney Morning Herald

PRH, PRH

'[Dream of Ding Village] can be read on several levels, as the story of a rural village; as a description of several power struggles; as a ghost story; as a portrait of a regime gone mad.' Otago Daily Times

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