The Women by Lianke, Yan
The Women by Lianke, Yan

The Women

A portrait of China's century through the story of the women in the author life, from the...
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Author: Yan Lianke
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Women by Lianke, Yan

The Women

$29.94
The Women by Lianke, Yan

The Women

$29.94
Author: Yan Lianke
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A portrait of China's century through the story of the women in the author life, from the highly acclaimed novelist, twice shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

Part memoir and part literary nonfiction, The Women captures the harsh and unequal experience of being a woman in 1970s and 80s rural China. Written by the award winning author Yan Lianke, the book is both a tribute to the women who shaped his life and a sociological critique of China's treatment of women. "In the countryside, the human being is a worker," but rural women's work is diminished, their hardship ignored. Through humor and tragedy, Lianke shares their story and reveals a side of Chinese life rarely accessed by the West.

Author: Yan Lianke
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/27/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781836742852


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Foreword 10/27/2026

About the Author
Yan Lianke is the author of the memoir Three Brothers and numerous novels and novellas, including Hard Like Water, 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 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the Franz Kafka Prize, and was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer. 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 also received two of China's most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.
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