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Dream of Ding Village

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781529113921

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 131mm

  • Weight: 282g

  • RRP: £9.99

Dream of Ding Village

'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung Chang

A searing novel that traces the destruction of a community in communist China.

Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy, this deeply moving novel shares the tragic story of the blood-contamination scandal in China's Henan province.

Looking for a way to lift Ding Village from poverty, its directors and organisers open blood-plasma collection stations, hoping to sell the plasma to those in need. At first the scheme is a commercial success. Soon, however, whole communities are wiped out after contracting HIV. As Xiao narrates the fate of Ding Village, his family is torn apart by suspicion and retribution.

'The defining work of his career... A devastating critique of China's runaway development' Guardian

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781529113921

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 131mm

  • Weight: 282g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • One of China's most successful fiction writers

    New York Times

  • One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists

    Guardian

  • Yan Lianke denounces an alarming situation...his novel is a true revelation

    Rolling Stone

  • A sorrowful but captivating novel about the price of progress in modern China... Resonates with the impact of Greek tragedy or Shakespearean drama

    Kirkus Reviews

  • The defining work of his career; not just an elegantly crafted piece of literature but a devastating critique of China’s runaway development

    Guardian

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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, Lenin's Kisses, 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.

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