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The Years, Months, Days - Two Novellas (Paperback)
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The Years, Months, Days - Two Novellas (Paperback)
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List price R467
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You Save R78 (17%)
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Yan Lianke--"China's most feted and most banned author" (Financial
Times)--is a master of imaginative satire, and his prize-winning
works have been published around the world to the highest honors.
Now, his two most acclaimed novellas are collected here in a single
volume--masterfully crafted stories that explore the sacrifices
made for family, the driving will to survive, and the longing to
leave behind a personal legacy. Marrow is the haunting tale of a
widow who goes to extremes to provide a normal life for her four
disabled children. When she discovers that bones--especially those
of kin--can cure their illnesses and prevent future generations
from the same fate, she feeds them a medicinal soup made from the
skeleton of her dead husband. But after running out of soup, she
resorts to a measure that only a mother can take. In the luminous,
moving title story, The Years, Months, Days--a bestselling, classic
fable in China, and winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Literary
Prize--an elderly man stays behind in his small village after a
terrible drought forces everyone to leave. Unable to make the
grueling march through the mountains, he becomes the lone
inhabitant, along with a blind dog. As he fends off the natural
world from overtaking his hometown, every day is a victory over
death. With touches of the fantastical and with deep humanity,
these two magnificent novellas--masterpieces of the short
form--reflect the universality of mankind's will to live, live
well, and live with purpose.
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