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THE DAY THE SUN DIED - YAN LIANKE KARTONIERT (TB)

'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung ChangThis gripping dystopia contrasts
the reality of life in China today with the sunny optimism of the 'Chinese dream'.One dusk in
early June  in a town deep in the Balou mountains  fourteen-year-old Li Niannian notices that
something strange is going on. As the residents would usually be settling down for the night 
instead they start appearing in the streets and fields. There are people everywhere. Li
Niannian watches  mystified. Until he realises the people are dreamwalking  carrying on with
their daily business as if the sun hadn't already gone down. And before too long  as more and
more people succumb  in the black of night all hell breaks loose. Set over the course of one
night  The Day the Sun Died pits chaos and darkness against the bright 'Chinese dream' promoted
by President Xi Jinping. We are thrown into the middle of an increasingly strange and troubling
waking nightmare as Li Niannian and his father struggle to save the town  and persuade the
beneficent sun to rise again. Praise for Yan Lianke's books: 'Nothing short of a masterpiece'
Guardian'A hyper-real tour de force  a blistering condemnation of political corruption and
excess' Financial Times'Mordant satire from a brave fabulist' Daily Mail 'Exuberant and
imaginative' Sunday Times 'I can think of few better novelists than Yan  with his superlative
gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth' New York Times Book Review

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