A mystifying climatic incongruity begins the award-winning novel
Lenin's Kisses--an absurdist, tragicomic masterpiece set in modern
day China. Nestled deep within the Balou mountains, spared from the
government's watchful eye, the harmonious people of Liven had
enough food and leisure to be fully content. But when their crops
and livelihood are obliterated by a seven-day snowstorm in the
middle of a sweltering summer, a county official arrives with a
lucrative scheme both to raise money for the district and boost his
career. The majority of the 197 villagers are disabled, and he
convinces them to start a traveling performance troupe highlighting
such acts as One-Eye's one-eyed needle threading. With the profits
from this extraordinary show, he intends to buy Lenin's embalmed
corpse from Russia and install it in a grand mausoleum to attract
tourism, in the ultimate marriage of capitalism and communism.
However, the success of the Shuanghuai County Special-Skills
Performance Troupe comes at a serious price. Yan Lianke, one of
China's most distinguished writers--whose works often push the
envelope of his country's censorship system--delivers a humorous,
daring, and riveting portrait of the trappings and consequences of
greed and corruption at the heart of humanity.
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