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The Day the Sun Died Hardback - 2018

by Yan Lianke; Carlos Rojas (Translator)

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An unforgettable tale of a village that descends into a sleepwalking spell as the sun threatens to never rise again, by the author of Discovering Fiction.

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.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Named Best Book of the Year at Publishers Weekly

Named Best Fiction in Translation Selection by Kirkus Reviews

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

"[The Day the Sun Died is] the creepiest book I've read in years: a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse . . . Yan's understated wit runs through these pages like a snake through fallen leaves . . . Invokes that fluid dream state in which everything represents something else, something deeper . . . A wake-up call about the path we're on." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Floats between surrealism, sci-fi, horror, and absurdism, while never letting go of its satirical eye. Yet the language and structure of the novel reads more like Samuel Beckett or James Joyce than it does The Handmaid's Tale." --Ploughshares

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  • Title The Day the Sun Died
  • Author Yan Lianke; Carlos Rojas (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press
  • Publication date 2018-12-11
  • ISBN 9780802128539 / 080212853X
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.4 in (21.59 x 14.99 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Dystopias
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018026618
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.135

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2018, Page 16
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2018, Page 25
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 07/01/2018, Page 51
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/01/2018, Page 0

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 tranger. He has received two of China's most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.

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