The Years, Months, Days

Name: The Years, Months, Days
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781925603125
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By Yan Lianke

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The Years, Months, Days by Yan Lianke is a poignant tale that explores survival and resilience in the face of nature's adversities. Set in a drought-stricken village, an elderly man and his dog endure the harsh realities of life while finding deeper meaning in their shared existence. The narrative beautifully captures the themes of perseverance, companionship, and the human spirit's ability to persist against all odds.
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You might enjoy this poignant tale if you're drawn to stories that explore resilience, survival, and the human spirit against nature's harsh realities. The narrative's blend of empathy and stark beauty, coupled with its vivid depiction of rural life in China, offers a powerful and immersive experience for readers who appreciate deeply moving and evocative fiction.

The Years, Months, Days

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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.

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Yan Lianke's work is celebrated for its imaginative satire and its deeply moving narrative qualities. The novel is described as a vivid blend of stark realism and nightmarish fantasy, capturing themes of sacrifice, companionship, and survival. Critics highlight the emotional depth and rich irony found in Lianke's storytelling, with high praise for the translation by Carlos Rojas. The novel is seen as both a tribute to the struggles of a generation and a testament to human dignity amidst despair.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925603125

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 November 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 112g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. Text has published his novels Serve the People!, Lenin's Kisses, Dream of Ding Village (shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize), The Four Books and The Explosion Chronicles. Yan Lianke won the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize in 2013. He has also won two of China's most prestigious literary awards- the Lu Xan Prize and the Lao She Award. In 2014, he won the Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Bejing.

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