Lenin's Kisses

A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEDeep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year's crops, a county official dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district and boost his career. He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show, to include Blind Tonghua's Acute Listening Act and Deafman Ma's Firecrackers-on-the-Ear. With the money, he intends to buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia and install it in a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this sleepy district. However, as we all know, even the best intentions can go awry.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Lianke, Lianke Yan, Lianke Yan, Yan Lianke
• Assisted by: Carlos Rojas (Translation), Rojas Carlos (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780099569480
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956948-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Absurdist, Narrative theme: Social issues, c 1990 to c 1999, FICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs, FICTION / World Literature / China / 20th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary