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Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, Lenin's Kisses, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles, The Day the Sun Died and Hard Like Water. He has been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices Award and the prix Femina Étranger. The Day the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in Beijing.Charting the transformation of a rural village into a 21st- century megalopolis, it is <b>a boisterously inventive novel that conveys the everyday reality of modern China</b>
- David Mills, Sunday Times Books of the Year
As much a parody of communist rule in China as a devastating critique of capitalist excess, power, greed and self-destruction, Yan’s novel is <b>nothing short of a masterpiece</b>
- Claire Kohda Hazelton, Observer
<b>Extraordinary</b>... A provocatively illuminating and perceptive insight into contemporary China
- David Mills, The Sunday Times
A <b>hyper-real tour de force</b>, a blistering condemnation of political corruption and excess masquerading as absurdist saga
- Catherine Taylor, Financial Times
A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master... Yan Lianke, one of China's most forthright and versatile novelists, enlists extravagant comedy and far-fetched fable to propel his critique of a society where "power and money have colluded to steal people's souls"
The Economist