Yan Lianke

Broschiertes Buch

Lenin's Kisses

Beschreibung

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 Leninâ s embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia and install it in a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this sleepy district.

Autor

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, The Day the Sun Died and Hard Like Water. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 669526
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780099569480
• ISBN-10: 0099569485
• Artikelnr.: 38056682

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Yan Lianke is one of China's most interesting writers and a master of imaginative satire Isabel Hilton Guardian