Three Brothers - Memories of My Family

Informationen zum Autor 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 and The Day the Sun Died . 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. Klappentext A memoir evoking rural China during the cultural revolution, set in Song County in Henan Province. Lianke's first work of non-fiction to appear in English. Zusammenfassung Reading novels is an escape for Yan, and he yearns to become a writer after hearing about a woman who was allowed to remain in the city of Harbin after publishing her first novel. Caught between his obligations as a son and a brother, and his longing for a new life, Yan eventually joins the army.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Lianke, Lianke Yan
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781784743154
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-315-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 204 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / China, Autobiography: historical, political & military, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: writers, Henan