Serve the People!

Serve the People!
Yan Lianke
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 217pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781529113914
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Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the People! is a beautifully told, wickedly daring story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful Division Commander in Communist China, and her household' s lowly servant, Wu Dawang. When Liu Lian establishes a rule for her orderly that he is to attend to her needs whenever the household' s wooden ' Serve the People!' sign is removed from its usual place, the orderly vows to obey. What follows is a remarkable love story and a profound and deliciously comic satire on Mao' s famous slogan and the political and sexual taboos of his regime.
One of China' s greatest living authors and fiercest satirists * Guardian * Brilliantly exposes the emptiness of Maoist ideals and the fraudulent ends for which they were used, but also relates a sorrowful tale of compromised relationships and modest hopes left unfulfilled * Publishers Weekly * A scathing sendup of life in 1960s China during the chaos of the country' s Cultural Revolution. . . a wonderfully biting sature, brimming with absurdity, humor and wit * Los Angeles Times *
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 Etranger. 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' s cover artwork features the work of leading contemporary Chinese artists. Turn to the final pages to learn more about them.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529113914
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 217

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