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China Fiction County officials and employees Fiction Freak shows Fiction Henan Sheng (China) Biography LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹch 1870-1924 Fiction People with disabilities Fiction Religious education Fiction Yan, Lianke 1958- Family Yu, Hua 1960- Translations into EnglishYan, Lianke
Summary: "From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANYan, Lianke
Summary: "In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and '70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of his father and uncles, aswell as his own. Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANYan, Lianke
Summary: The trouble-free lives of the disabled residents of Liven in China are disrupted when a money-hungry county official convinces them to start a traveling freak show so that he can use the proceeds to buy the embalmed corpse of Lenin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANYu, Hua
Summary: Set against the backdrop of a modern-day China caught in the midst of a growing capitalism, Baldy Li, a teenage ne'er-do-well, and Song Gang, his bookish stepbrother, vow to preserve their close relationship despite their personal differences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009