The Explosion Chronicles
Descriere
With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era, the name takes on a new significance as the rural community grows explosively from a small village to a town to a city to a vast megalopolis.
Behind this rapid expansion are three rival clans linked together by a web of ambition, madness and greed. Together they transform their hometown into a Babylon of modern times -- an unrivalled urban superpower built on lies, sex and thievery.'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung Chang
Despre autor
Yan Lianke este un scriitor chinez de romane și povestiri care trăiește în Beijing. Operele sale sunt foarte satirice, ceea ce a dus la interzicerea unora dintre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale în China. El a recunoscut că se autocenzurează atunci când scrie poveștile sale pentru a evita cenzura.
