The Years, Months, Days

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ISBN: 9781925603125

Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas

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English

Text Publishing Company
27 November 2017

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A luminous and deeply moving tale of hunger, loss and life by one of China's most renowned contemporary writers.

The Years, Months, Days is a profound and moving fable about the deep love between an old man and his blind dog trying to survive in a terrible drought - there is no food, the villagers have left, but the old man has managed to nurture a corn seed that has germinated on a mountain top. He is devoted to this seedling.

The old man weighs the rays of the sun, working out the arithmetic of starvation and survival. Finally he realises that for his plant to survive, one of them has to be fertiliser. He loses the coin toss, lies in a grave he has dug and asks the dog to bury him.

Rich on so many levels, and not without its flashes of characteristic Yan Lianke humour, this cosmic tale will bring tears to readers' eyes. The Years, Months, Days is compulsory reading for many Chinese children - and adults.

By: Yan Lianke
Translated by: Carlos Rojas
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 112g
ISBN: 9781925603125
ISBN 10: 1925603121
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 27 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Women's Studies at Duke University. He has translated Yan Lianke's three most recent novels.

Reviews for The Years, Months, Days

`Yan Lianke well deserves to be in the Pantheon of great writers. He has no equal at attacking societal issues or the great Maoist myths in order to turn them into novels so breathtakingly powerful, shot through with black, often desperate, humor.' * Le Monde Diplomatique * `One of China's eminent and most controversial novelists and satirists.' * Chicago Tribune * `A master of imaginative satire. His work is animated by an affectionate loyalty to his peasant origins in the poverty-stricken province of Henan, and fierce anger over the political abuses of the regime.' * Guardian * `Yan Lianke is one of the best contemporary Chinese writers.' * Independent *