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This book is a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year's crops, a county official dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district and boost his career. He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show, to include Blind Tonghua's Acute Listening Act and Deafman Ma's Firecrackers-on-the-Ear. With the money, he intends to buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia and install it in a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this sleepy district. However, as we all know, even the best intentions can go awry.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Lenin's Kisses
• Author: Yan Lianke
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• EAN: 9780099569480
• ISBN: 0099569485
• ID: 01321726
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 362 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 131 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. October 2013

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