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The Years, Months, Days
  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 17/05/2018

  • ISBN: 9781784708061

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 109g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Years, Months, Days

Yan Lianke

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A terrible drought hits the population of a small mountain village and they flee to better climes. Incapable of marching for days, one old man and his blind dog stay behind, keeping watch over his single ear of corn. Every day is a victory over death.

The Years, Months, Days is a universal story, an homage to all that is good in mankind. A bestseller in China and now available in English for the first time, this is a powerful, moving fable by ‘one of China’s greatest living authors’ (Guardian).

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 17/05/2018

  • ISBN: 9781784708061

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 109g

  • RRP: £8.99


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About the Author

Yan Lianke

Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles and The Day the Sun Died. He has been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices Award and the prix Femina Étranger. The Day the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in Beijing.

Yan Lianke

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