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Yan Lianke is the author of numerous short story collections and novels, including "Serve the People!," "Lenin's Kisses," and "Dream of Ding Village," which was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and adapated into a film ("Til Death Do Us Part"). He is the winner of two of China's most prestigious literary awards, the Lu Xun prize and the Lao She award, and he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
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"An original work of art . . . The Four Books shows Yan in top satirical form." Malcolm Forbes, The National
"[The Four Books] is driven by a cold fury at the events it recounts, its satire edged with Swiftian moral disgust. It is unsparing in its picture of the ways in which totalitarian habits of thought seep deep into personal relations, and it is smart in its depiction of how intellectuals get co-opted by the system . . . [Yan’s] fiction of ideas feels hard won and genuine, an expression of sorrow, bafflement, anger, and love." Robert Anthony Siegel, The Rumpus
"Arch and playful. . . . [Yan] deploys offbeat humour, anarchic set pieces and surreal imagery to shed new light on dark episodes from modern Chinese history. . . . [A] brave, brilliant novel." David Evans, Financial Times
"[The Four Books is] 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. . . . Stupendous and unforgettable . . . a devastating, brilliant slice of living history." Kate Saunders, The Times (UK)
"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, one that both commemorates the state’s victims and defies China's state-sponsored amnesia." Isabel Hilton, Guardian
"A satirical tale about abuse of power and the vicious survivalist psychology of people who have been robbed of their moral and intellectual compass . . . brilliantly chilling . . . The Four Books captures an aspect of Chinese life which is hard to imagine and understand for a foreigner, and Yan’s skilful depiction reaffirms why he is China’s most heralded and censored modern writer." The South China Morning Post
"The Four Books should be celebrated for its originality. . . . A fascinating approach to a daring and interesting subject." The Harvard Crimson
"One of contemporary Chinese literature's richest, wittiest, most seductive and powerful novels. . . . A joy to read." The Saturday Paper (Au)
"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 Reviews
"Yan has built his substantial career on exposing the surreal absurdity of China’s 20th-century tragedies. . . . [This] multilayered novel is . . . a vital historical testimony." Library Journal (starred review)
"A stinging indictment of the illogic of bureaucracy and tyranny . . . the literary structure is tight and the prose incredibly accessible. Readers will have difficulty putting this down." Publishers Weekly
"One of the masters of modern Chinese literature, Yan Lianke gives all the pleasures one gets from reading. He can extract humor from the bleakest situation. I wholeheartedly recommend this latest book." Jung Chang
"[A] rich and complex novel." Booklist
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0099569493
- ISBN 13 9780099569497
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