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Lianke, Yan

 
9781784740481: The Explosion Chronicles
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ISBN 10: 1784740489 ISBN 13: 9781784740481
Editorial: Random House UK, 2016

Sinopsis

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With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era, the name takes on a new significance as the rural community grows explosively from a small village to a town to a city to a vast megalopolis.

Behind this rapid expansion are three rival clans linked together by a web of ambition, madness and greed. The four Kong brothers; Zhu Ying, the daughter of the former village chief; and Cheng Qing, who starts out as a secretary and goes on to become a powerful political and business figure in her own right, transform their hometown into a Babylon of modern times -- an unrivalled urban superpower built on lies, sex and thievery.

Brimming with absurdity, intelligence and wit, The Explosion Chronicles considers the high stakes of passion and power, the consequences of corruption and greed, the dynamics of love and hate, as well as the seemingly boundless excesses of capitalist culture.

'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung Chang

'One of China’s most successful writers . . . [Yan Lianke] writes in the spirit of the dissident writer Vladimir Voinovich, who observed that "reality and satire are the same"' Evan Osnos, New Yorker

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Acerca del autor

Yan Lianke is the author of works including Dream of Ding Village, The Day the Sun Died, The Four Books, Three Brothers and Hard Like Water. He has been awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Royal Society of Literature International Writer Lifetime Award, and was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He has received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award. He was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China.

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Editorial
Random House UK
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1784740489
ISBN 13 
9781784740481
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
480
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780802125828: The Explosion Chronicles: A Novel

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0802125824 ISBN 13:  9780802125828
Editorial: Grove Atlantic, Inc., 2016
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