Dream of Ding Village
Yan Lianke's novel about the blood-selling scandal in rural Henan that led to an AIDS crisis, in Cindy Carter's translation.
Dream of Ding Village is a 2006 novel by Yan Lianke, based on the blood sales in rural Henan province that sparked a major AIDS crisis in China. It was banned from further printing in China after the initial print run sold out, and Yan has said he self-censored while writing it. Cindy Carter’s English translation was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Grove Press published this edition in 2012. A film adaptation, Love for Life, appeared in 2011.
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