Лучшие книги Яня Лянькэ

Жаркой летней ночью в небольшом китайском городке разгорается эпидемия сомнамбулизма. Люди засыпают и во сне принимаются делать то, что им больше всего хотелось сделать наяву: одни идут мстить, другие — грабить и насиловать. Бредущие сквозь кромешную тьму, они готовы преступить мораль, здравый смысл, законы и само время, чтобы воплотить в жизнь свои тайные желания. Скоро эпидемия захватывает всю провинцию, и самые страшные кошмары вырываются на свободу и управляют явью.

Повести одного «одного из лучших китайских писателей современности» (Independent), обладателя уникального дара наблюдателя и талантливого сатирика — Янь Лянькэ. В книгу «Дни, месяцы, годы» вошли две его самые известные повести. Подарившая название сборнику повесть «Дни, месяцы, годы» (2002) по сути является притчей. Трогательной и глубокой притчей о старике и слепой собаке, оставшихся в горной деревне, которую покинули остальные жители из-за жестокой засухи. Повесть «Небесная песнь хребта Балоу» (2001) — пронзительная история о вдове, воспитывающей четверых умственно и физически отсталых детей и узнающей о существовании способа их…

В настоящий сборник включены произведения крупнейших современных китайских писателей, лауреатов престижных национальных и международных премий, переведенные на многие языки мира. Один из них, Мо Янь, "объединивший с помощью галлюцинаторного реализма народные сказки с историей и современностью", в 2012 году был удостоен Нобелевской премии по литературе. Разные по содержанию, стилю и времени создания, эти произведения объединяет одно очень важное обстоятельство - они принесли авторам по-настоящему серьезный успех и определили их дальнейший творческий путь. "Папапа" Хань Шаогуна, например, до сих пор считается одним из самых загадочных…

Это роман об эпидемии ВИЧ, охватившей многие провинции Китая в начале девяностых, когда правительство решило развивать собственный рынок плазмы крови и объявило кампанию «донорской экономики». По всей стране открылось множество «кровпунктов», в деревнях появились «кровяные старосты». Соблазненные лозунгом «Сдавай кровь и богатей», прозябающие в бедности крестьяне бросились сдавать кровь и из-за антисанитарных условий массово заражались ВИЧ-инфекцией. Через некоторое время по стране прокатилась опустошающая целые деревни смертоносная волна эпидемии. Книга стала результатом трех лет работы автора «под прикрытием» — устроившись ассистентом…

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, Guess the Age of the Old Man, Deafman Ma’s Firecrackers-on-the-Ear and One-Eye’s Needle Threading. With the money, he…

From master storyteller Yan Lianke, winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, The Four Books is a powerful, daring novel of the dog-eat-dog psychology inside a labor camp for intellectuals during Mao’s Great Leap Forward. A renowned author in China, and among its most censored, Yan’s mythical, sometimes surreal tale cuts to the bone in its portrayal of the struggle between authoritarian power and man’s will to prevail against the darkest odds through camaraderie, love, and faith. In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling reeducation compound, freethinking artists and academics…

Novela corta pero intensa y épica, que funde lo humano, la naturaleza y la muerte. Una fábula sobre el sacrificio personal y el amor de una madre. En una pequeña aldea escondida en los montes Balou, You Sipo, una campesina local, trabaja día y noche para sacar adelante la cosecha mientras desespera por el futuro de sus hijos, a quienes en la aldea todos apodan los cuatro imbéciles You. You Sipo no tiene quien la ayude, solo el fantasma de su marido la acompaña en la búsqueda de una solución a sus problemas. Un día, de la forma más sorprendente, aparece una cura para la maldición familiar, sin embargo, el precio es tan alto e inconcebible…

This political satire by one of China's most distinguished authors has been banned in its native land for its depiction of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution. Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, when 'Serve the People' was one of the great man's most famous slogans, it tells the story of the bored wife of a military commander who artfully seduces a peasant soldier. When the lovers discover that the sacrilegious act of breaking a statue of Mao deliciously increases their desire, they compete to see who can destroy the most sacred icons of their Great Leader - smashing the commander's beloved Mao…

This is the story of the freewheeling love affair between married soldier Aijun and Hongmei, a beautiful young woman from his village in the Balou Mountains. Intoxicated with one another, Aijun and Hongmei hurl themselves into their town's revolutionary struggle. Spending their days and nights stamping out feudalism, writing pamphlets and organising rallies, they become inseparable: they are the engines of history. But as their political activity reaches new heights, so does the danger of getting caught...

To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for the sake of stories that everyone lives on this earth. Yahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom. Her days are measured out making elaborate religious papercuts, taking part in highly charged tug-of-war competitions between the faiths and trying to resist the daily…

Китай, 1958 год. Вслед за Большим скачком на страну обрушился Великий голод, который за три года унес жизни миллионов людей. Мы оказываемся в исправительно-трудовом лагере, большинство заключенных которого составляют представители интеллигенции. Жесткий и безапелляционный роман рисует перед нами самые мрачные страницы в истории новейшего Китая.

In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and '70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of Yan Lianke's father and uncles, as well as his own. Yan's parents are so poor that they can only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he dreams of fried scallion buns, and once steals from his father to buy a sesame seed cake. Yan yearns to leave the village, however he can, and soon novels become an escape. He resolves to become a writer himself after reading on the back of a novel that its author was given leave to remain in the city of Harbin after publishing her book. In the evenings, after finishing back-breaking shifts hauling stones at a cement factory, sometimes sixteen hours long, he sets to work writing. A career in the Army ultimately allows Yan to escape village life, but he is filled with regrets as he recalls these years of scarcity, turmoil, and poverty. A powerful portrait of the trials of daily life, as well as a philosophical meditation on grief, death, home, and fate, and gleaming throughout with Yan's quick wit and gift for imagery, Three Brothers is a personal portrait of a politically devastating period, and a celebration of the power of the family to hold together even in the harshest circumstances.

A terrible drought hits the population of a small mountain village and they flee to better climes. Incapable of marching for days, one old man and his blind dog stay behind, keeping watch over his single ear of corn. Every day is a victory over death.

With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees fleeing a seismic volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new significance as the community grows explosively from a small village to a vast metropolis. Behind this rapid expansion are members of the community’s three major families, including the four Kong brothers; Zhu Ying, the daughter of the former village chief; and Cheng Qing, who starts out as a secretary and goes on to become a powerful political and business figure. Linked together by a complex web of loyalty, betrayal, desire, and ambition, these figures are the driving force behind their hometown’s transformation into an urban superpower.

Brimming with absurdity, intelligence, and wit,The Explosion Chronicles considers the high stakes of passion and power, the consequences of corruption and greed, the polarizing dynamics of love and hate between families, as well as humankind’s resourcefulness through the vicissitudes of life.