Lenin's Kisses: A Novel
Oct 2012 · Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
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This "blistering satire" of modern China was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and a New York Times Editor's Choice novel ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Lenin's Kisses is set in modern day China, in the village of Liven. Nestled within the Balou Mountains, the people have enough food and leisure to be content—until their crops and livelihood are obliterated by a snowstorm in the middle of summer. Then a county official arrives with a peculiar plan. He wants to use the villagers to start a traveling performance troupe. Next, he'll take the profits and buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from Russia and install it in a mausoleum to attract tourism. But the success of the Shuanghuai County Special-Skills Performance Troupe comes at a serious price.
Named a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, Lenin's Kisses is "a satirical masterpiece" ( Kirkus) that was on Best Book of 2012 lists from the New Yorker, MacLeans, and Kirkus, and was also a New York Times Editors' Choice.
Lenin's Kisses is set in modern day China, in the village of Liven. Nestled within the Balou Mountains, the people have enough food and leisure to be content—until their crops and livelihood are obliterated by a snowstorm in the middle of summer. Then a county official arrives with a peculiar plan. He wants to use the villagers to start a traveling performance troupe. Next, he'll take the profits and buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from Russia and install it in a mausoleum to attract tourism. But the success of the Shuanghuai County Special-Skills Performance Troupe comes at a serious price.
Named a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, Lenin's Kisses is "a satirical masterpiece" ( Kirkus) that was on Best Book of 2012 lists from the New Yorker, MacLeans, and Kirkus, and was also a New York Times Editors' Choice.
This "blistering satire" of modern China was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and a New York Times Editor's Choice novel ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Lenin's Kisses is set in modern day China, in the village of Liven. Nestled within the Balou Mountains, the people have...
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Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Song County, Henan Province, China. He studied politics and education and is a 1985 graduate of Henan University. A few years later he received a degree in Literature from the People's Liberation Army Art Institute. His novels include Serve the People!, Lenin's Kisses, Dream of Ding Village, and The Four Books. Yan Lianke won the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize in 2013. He has also won two of China's most prestigious literary awards: the Lu Xan Literary Prize (in 1998 and 2001) and the Lao She Literary Award in 2005. In 2014, he won the Franz Kafka Prize.
Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Song County, Henan Province, China. He studied politics and education and is a 1985 graduate of Henan University. A few years later he received a degree in Literature from the People's Liberation Army Art Institute. His novels include Serve the People!, Lenin's Kiss...
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