Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China\'s most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" ( New York Times Book Review ).
In a little village nestled in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old.
His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died --winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels--is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare.
Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China\'s most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" ( New York Times Book Review )