Dream of Ding Village

<i>Dream of Ding Village</i> 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, <i>Ding Village</i> is powerful and peerless.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *<br />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 *

Yan Lianke is the author of works including Dream of Ding Village, The Day the Sun Died, The Four Books, Three Brothers, and Hard Like Water. He has been awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Royal Society of Literature International Writer Lifetime Award, and was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He has received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award. He was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China.

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