The Four Books

by Yan Lianke

Book Overview

From master storyteller Yan Lianke, winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, The Four Books is a powerful, daring novel of the dog-eat-dog psychology inside a labor camp for intellectuals during Mao's Great Leap Forward. A renowned author in China, and among its most censored, Yan's mythical, sometimes surreal tale cuts to the bone in its portrayal of the struggle between authoritarian power...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802123120
• ISBN13: 9780802123121
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"