The Years, Months, Days: Two Novellas
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The Years, Months, Days: Two Novellas

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The Years, Months, Days: Two NovellasYan 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 12/05/2017
ISBN: 9780802126658
Pages: 155
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2017 pg. 54
Library Journal 09/15/2017 pg. 71
Publishers Weekly 10/02/2017
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2017 pg. 26
Booklist 10/15/2017 pg. 22
Shelf Awareness 12/26/2017
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