LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2017
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. Together they transform their hometown into a Babylon of modern times -- an unrivalled urban superpower built on lies, sex and thievery.
'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung Chang
| ISBN: | 9781784701925 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2018 |
| Author: | Lianke Yan |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Fiction in translation Urban fantasy Historical Fiction General Fiction |