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A01=Yan Lianke
Author_Yan Lianke
Category1=Fiction
Category=NL-FA
Category=NL-FY
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=216
IMPN=Chatto & Windus
ISBN13=9781784741617
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20180726
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Vintage Publishing
SMM=25
Subject=Fiction: Special Features
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
WG=374
WMM=135

The Day the Sun Died

Paperback | English

By (author): Yan Lianke

The reality of life in China today contrasts with the sunny optimism of the ''Chinese dream'' in this gripping, gruesome dystopia from ''one of the masters of modern Chinese literature'' (Jung Chang) One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian notices that something strange is going on. As the residents would usually be settling down for the night, instead they start appearing in the streets and fields. There are people everywhere. Li Niannian watches, mystified. But then he realises the people are dreamwalking, carrying on with their daily business as if the sun hadn''t already gone down. And before too long, as more and more people succumb, in the black of night all hell breaks loose. Set over the course of one night, The Day the Sun Died pits chaos and darkness against the sunny optimism of the ''Chinese dream'' promoted by President Xi Jinping. We are thrown into the middle of an increasingly strange and troubling waking nightmare as Li Niannian and his father struggle to save the town, and persuade the beneficent sun to rise again. Praise for Yan Lianke''s books ''Nothing short of a masterpiece'' Guardian ''A hyper-real tour de force, a blistering condemnation of political corruption and excess'' Financial Times ''Mordant satire from a brave fabulist'' Daily Mail ''Exuberant and imaginative'' Sunday Times ''I can think of few better novelists than Yan, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth'' New York Times Book Review See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 374g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216 x 25mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784741617
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