The Explosion Chronicles

Name: The Explosion Chronicles
Brand: Vintage Publishing
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By (author): Yan Lianke

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With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era, the name takes on a new significance as the rural community grows explosively from a small village to a town to a city to a vast megalopolis.

Behind this rapid expansion are three rival clans linked together by a web of ambition, madness and greed. Together they transform their hometown into a Babylon of modern times -- an unrivalled urban superpower built on lies, sex and thievery.

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

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Weight: 379g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 01 Mar 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781784701925

About 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 The Day the Sun Died and Hard Like Water. 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.