The Explosion Chronicles

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2017 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

Product details

• Authors: Yan Lianke, Lianke Yan, Lianke Yan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2018
• EAN: 9781784701925
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-192-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Urban Fantasy, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, Fiction: general and literary