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Book, 2015
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Book, 2015
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Man Booker International Prize finalist Yan Lianke's most powerful and searing novel yet, about the persecution of intellectuals in a reeducation camp during the Great Leap Forward. "The Four Books" is a daring, darkly satirical story of the dog-eat-dog psychology inside a labor camp during China's "three bitter years" of famine. Reminiscent of such classics as "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "Darkness at Noon," Yan's mythical, symbolic, sometimes surreal tale portrays the absurdity and grotesquerie of this traumatic period, which has been a taboo subject for half a century. Divided into four narratives - influenced by the four texts of Confucianism and the four Gospels of the New Testament - this is an affecting and poetic novel that captures the universal power of camaraderie, love, and faith against oppression and the darkest odds.
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