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Lenin's kisses
Title:
Lenin's kisses
Author:
Yan, Lianke, 1958-
閻連科, 1958-
Rojas, Carlos, 1970-
ISBN:
9780099569480
Uniform Title:
受活. English
Publication Information:
London : Vintage, 2013.
Physical Description:
vii, 500 p. ; 24 cm
General Note:
"First published in Chinese as Shuohou in 2004"--T.p. verso.
Abstract:
Yan boldly plunges into the psychic gap between China's decades-old conditioned response to communist doctrine and its redefinition of itself as a capitalist power, creating with bold, carnivalesque strokes a heartbreaking story of greed, corruption, and the dangers of utopia.
Personal Subject:
Subject:
People with disabilities -- Fiction. |
Freak shows -- Fiction. |
County officials and employees -- Fiction. |
China -- Fiction. |
Humorous fiction. |
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Fiction. |
Summary:
Yan boldly plunges into the psychic gap between China's decades-old conditioned response to communist doctrine and its redefinition of itself as a capitalist power, creating with bold, carnivalesque strokes a heartbreaking story of greed, corruption, and the dangers of utopia.