The novelist Yan Lianke, with “The death of the sun”, paints a tragic portrait of the Chinese dream.
Yan Lianke is one of the most important contemporary novelists, who could become a Nobel prize winner. A major work, “The Death of the Sun” (La mort du soleil) (1) has just been published by Editions Philippe Picquier, which has done a considerable amount of work, with ten publications, to make Yan Lianke’s novels better known.
The book has been translated into French by Brigitte Guilbaud, whose translations of several of the author’s novels have … Lire la suite