The Years Months Days Two Translated Novellas Translated Reissue Yan Lianke by Yan Lianke 9780802188816, 0802188818 instant download after payment.

Now, for the first time, his two most acclaimed novellas have  been translated & published in English.“Timeless” & “marvelous”, are a haunting story of a widow who goes to extremes to provide a normal life for her four physically & mentally disabled children. When she finds out that bones “the closer from kin the better” can cure their illnesses & prevent future generations from the same fate, she feeds them a medicinal soup made from the bones of her dead husband. But after running out of bones, she resorts to a measure that only a mother can take.

A luminous, moving fable, The Years, Months, Days — a bestselling classic in China & winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize — tells of an elderly man who stays in his small village after a terrible drought forces everyone to leave. Unable to make the grueling march through the mountains, he becomes the lone inhabitant, along with a blind dog. Tending to a single ear of corn, & fending off the natural world from overtaking the village, every day is a victory over death.

With touches of the fantastical, these two novellas—masterpieces of the form—reflect the universality of mankind’s will to live, live well, & live with purpose whatever the odds.