Lenin's Kisses - Brossura

Lianke, Yan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0701186968 ISBN 13: 9780701186968

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2013

Riassunto

Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year's crops, a county official dreams up a money-making scheme that will boost his career and raise money for the district. He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show showcasing their disabilities, including Blind Tonghua's Acute Listening Act, Guess the Age of the Old Man, Deafman Ma's Firecrackers-on-the-Ear and One-Eye's Needle Threading. 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. However, as we all know, even the best intentions can go astray. Provocative and bitingly funny, "Lenin's Kisses" is a rollicking tragicomedy that stands as a cautionary tale of the all - consuming desire for power and wealth.

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Descrizione del libro:

A preposterous satire from one of China's most important novelists

L'autore:

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 and Lenin's Kisses. He is the winner of an array of literary awards, including China's Lao She, Lu Xun and Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize. In 2014 was awarded the prestigious Franz Kafka Book Prize, whose previous winners include Vaclav Havel, John Banville, Harold Pinter, Haruki Murakami and Philip Roth. He has also been shorlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He currently lives and writes in Beijing.

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0701186968
• ISBN 13: 9780701186968
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512