A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Deep within the
Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled
people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village
of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive
life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an
unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year's crops, a county official
dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district and boost
his career. He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling
freak-show, to include Blind Tonghua's Acute Listening Act and
Deafman Ma's Firecrackers-on-the-Ear. With the money, he intends to
buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia and install it in
a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this
sleepy district. However, as we all know, even the best intentions
can go awry.
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