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Hard Like Water
[Paperback - 2022]
yan lianke
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Publisher: Vintage Uk | ISBN: 9781529110937 | Pages: 432
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The new masterpiece by eminent Chinese writer Yan Lianke . . . two revolutionaries take matters disastrously into their own hands while conducting a crazed affair MARGARET ATWOOD on Twitter

A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China s Cultural Revolution

This is the story of the freewheeling love affair between married soldier Aijun and Hongmei, a beautiful young woman from his village in the Balou Mountains.

Intoxicated with one another, Aijun and Hongmei hurl themselves into their town s revolutionary struggle. Spending their days and nights stamping out feudalism, writing pamphlets and organising rallies, they become inseparable: they are the engines of history.

But as their political activity reaches new heights, so does the danger of getting caught...

A blistering tour-de-force... Sensuous and riveting MADELEINE THIEN, Booker-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Fascinating... This tale of an illicit tryst during the Cultural Revolution is a stinging satire The Times

**A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST FICTION IN TRANSLATION BOOK 2021**

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 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.

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