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Editorial : PRAISE FOR THE FOUR BOOKS
"An original work of art The Four Books shows Yan in top satirical form." Malcolm Forbes, The National
"The Four Books can be read as a culmination of the longer project in which Lianke is engaged: criticizing the foundations of the Chinese state and the historical narrative on which it is built, while still somehow remaining one of its most lauded writers." Jacob Mikanowski, New Republic
"Arch and playful. Yan deploys offbeat humour, anarchic set pieces and surreal imagery to shed new light on dark episodes from modern Chinese history. A brave, brilliant novel." David Evans, Financial Times
"The Four Books is driven by a cold fury at the events it recounts, its satire edged with Swiftian moral disgust. It is unsparing in its picture of the ways in which totalitarian habits of thought seep deep into personal relations, and it is smart in its depicti
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