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Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China’s most essential and daring novelist, “with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth” (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died―winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels―is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare.
In a little village nestled in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian and his parents run a funeral parlor. One evening, he notices a strange occurrence. Instead of preparing for bed, more and more neighbors appear in the streets and fields, carrying on with their daily business as if the sun hadn’t already set. Li Niannian watches, mystified. As hundreds of residents are found dreamwalking, they act out the desires they’ve suppressed during waking hours. Before long, the community devolves into chaos, and it’s up to Li Niannian and his parents to save the town before sunrise.
Set over the course of one increasingly bizarre night, The Day the Sun Died is a propulsive, darkly sinister tale from a world-class writer.
In a little village nestled in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian and his parents run a funeral parlor. One evening, he notices a strange occurrence. Instead of preparing for bed, more and more neighbors appear in the streets and fields, carrying on with their daily business as if the sun hadn’t already set. Li Niannian watches, mystified. As hundreds of residents are found dreamwalking, they act out the desires they’ve suppressed during waking hours. Before long, the community devolves into chaos, and it’s up to Li Niannian and his parents to save the town before sunrise.
Set over the course of one increasingly bizarre night, The Day the Sun Died is a propulsive, darkly sinister tale from a world-class writer.
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An Amazon Best Book of December 2018: If you want to know what it’s like to live in China, read Yan Lianke. The Day the Sun Died takes place during a 24-hour period in a rural village in the Balou Mountains. One day in June, people begin “dreamwalking,” going about their business even though the sun has set. The story is told from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy named Li, whose parents are in the funerary business, and as the dreamwalking continues, the family business begins to pick up. Yan Lianke is one of China’s most popular and important writers, using satire to produce jarring social commentary—his aim is to reveal what exists just beneath the surface. As the dreamwalking continues, the villagers’ actions grow more sinister. Greed bubbles up. Jealousy turns to malice. Tradition and connection are buried beneath mindless industry. There are many deaths, many murders. Li’s uncle owns a crematorium; government policy requires burning, not burial, and the uncle grows very rich. But once the bodies are gone, they are gone for good. The narrative can be repetitive and meandering at times, but something very powerful lies among these pages. There is a reason that Lianke’s books are often banned in China. And there’s a reason he is so beloved by readers there as well. –Chris Schluep, Amazon Book Review
About the Author:
Yan Lianke is the author of numerous story collections and novels, including The Years, Months, Days; The Explosion Chronicles, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International and PEN Translation Prize; The Four Books; Lenin’s Kisses; Serve the People!, and Dream of Ding Village. Among many accolades, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, he was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina Étranger. He has received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.
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