The Day the Sun Died

From "China's most feted and most banned author" (Financial Times), an unforgettable tale of a village that descends into a sleepwalking spell as the sun threatens to never rise again

About the author

Yan Lianke is the author of numerous story collections and novels, including The Years, Months, Days; The Explosion Chronicles, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International and PEN Translation Prize; The Four Books; Lenin's Kisses; Serve the People!, and Dream of Ding Village. Among many accolades, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, he was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina Étranger. He has received two of China's most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Lianke, Lianke Yan
• Assisted by: Carlos Rojas (Translation), Rojas Carlos (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2019
• EAN: 9780802147738
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4773-8
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 208 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Fiction in translation, c 2010 to c 2019, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Asian / Chinese, Chinese (Lunar) New Year