Summary
‘It’s sharp, fresh, sexy, funny and highly recommended’ Sydney Morning Herald
‘Drips with the kind of satire that can only come from deep within the machinery of Chinese communism’ Financial Times
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921520181 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921520183 |
| Author: | Yan Lianke |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 462g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
‘Dream of Ding Village paints a riveting and disturbing portrait of village life in the grip of epidemic…as an expose 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 *
‘Based on the blood-selling scandal in Lianke’s home province of Henan, this is a devastating tale…As China rushes headlong into the global economy, it’s a stark warning.’ * Adelaide Advertiser *
‘The Chinese novelist Yan Lianke is one of that country’s greatest literary exports…[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 *
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 novella Serve 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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