Hard Like Water

A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural Revolution On his return to his village in the Balou Mountains, soldier Gao Aijun sees a young woman wandering barefoot along the railway tracks in the warm late-afternoon sun.

About the author

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.

Summary

A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural Revolution On his return to his village in the Balou Mountains, soldier Gao Aijun sees a young woman wandering barefoot along the railway tracks in the warm late-afternoon sun.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Lianke, Lianke Yan, Lianke Yan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2022
• EAN: 9781529110937
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-1093-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Historical romance, Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, 20th Century, erotic fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Love and relationships