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A family consumed by desire, ready to kill for a better life.
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The Family Plot

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    9 February 2027

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Summary

The brilliant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers: a son, father, and mother are all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one family member’s life.

A son who wants to kill his father. A father who wants to kill his wife. A wife who wants to kill her only son: this eye-popping new novel by one of the world’s great literary satirists is full of shocking truths.

In Gaotian Town, Central Plains, China, a family lives…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923670204
ISBN-10:1923670204
Author:Yan Lianke
Publisher:Text Publishing
Imprint:The Text Publishing Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:9 February 2027
About The Author

Yan Lianke

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.

Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright, and International Booker Prize-longlisted literary translator who has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including Yan Lianke’s memoir The Women. Originally from Singapore, Tiang now lives in Flushing, Queens.

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