Hard Like Water by Lianke, Yan
Hard Like Water by Lianke, Yan

Hard Like Water

From a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed "China's most controversial novelist" by the New Yorker, a gripping and...
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Author: Yan Lianke
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Hard Like Water by Lianke, Yan

Hard Like Water

$61.15
Hard Like Water by Lianke, Yan

Hard Like Water

$61.15
Author: Yan Lianke
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed "China's most controversial novelist" by the New Yorker, a gripping and biting story of ambition and betrayal, following two young communist revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them apart from their traditionally minded village, as the Cultural Revolution sweeps the nation

Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan's Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is instantly smitten. She is Xia Hongmei and lives up to her name of "beautiful flower." Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the struggle to bring revolution to their backwater village. They spend their days and nights writing pamphlets, organizing work brigades, and attending rallies, feeling they are the vanguard for the full-blown revolution that is waiting in the wings. Emboldened by encouragement from the Party, the couple dig a literal "tunnel of love" between their homes, where underneath the village their revolutionary and sexual fervor reaches a boiling point. While the unsuspecting villagers sleep, they sing revolutionary songs and compete in shouting-matches of Maoist slogans before making earth-moving love. But when their torrid relationship is finally discovered, and they have to answer to Hongmei's husband, their dreams of a bright future together begin to fray. Will their great revolutionary energy save their skins, or will they too fall victim to the revolution that is swallowing up the country?

A novel of rare emotional force and surprising humor, Hard Like Water is an operatic and brilliantly plotted human drama about power's corrupting nature and the brute force of love and desire.



Author: Yan Lianke
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 06/15/2021
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780802158123


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 04/19/2021
Booklist 05/15/2021 pg. 21
Library Journal 06/01/2021 pg. 108

About the Author
Yan Lianke is the author of the memoir Three Brothers and numerous novels and novellas, including The Day the Sun Died, The Explosion Chronicles, The Four Books, Lenin's Kisses, Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, and The Years, Months, Days. Among many accolades, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, he was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina Étranger. He has received two of China's most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.
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