The Explosion Chronicles
Yan Lianke's satirical novel offering a fictional history of a village transformed overnight into a megalopolis, translated by Carlos Rojas.
The Explosion Chronicles is a novel by Yan Lianke. The Week describes it as satirizing today’s China through a fictional history of a village transformed overnight into a megalopolis, and names Carlos Rojas as Yan’s translator. Grove Press published this 480-page paperback on 17 October 2017. Yan is a Chinese writer based in Beijing whose highly satirical work has led to some of his novels being banned in China.
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