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The years, months, days : two novellas / Yan Lianke ; translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas.

by Yan, Lianke, 1958-

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Black Cat, 2017.

Widows -- Fiction.

Single mothers -- Fiction.

Older people -- Fiction.

Droughts -- Fiction.

9780802126658 (trade pbk.)

1st Grove Atlantic paperback ed.

x, 192 p. ; 21 cm.

"The years, months, days first published in China in 1997 as Nian yue ri by Harvest magazine ; Marrow first published in China in 2001 as Balou tiange."--T.p. verso.

The years, months, days -- Marrow.

"Marrow is the haunting tale of a widow who goes to extremes to provide a normal life for her four disabled children. When she discovers that bones--especially those of kin--can cure their illnesses and prevent future generations from the same fate, she feeds them a medicinal soup made from the skeleton of her dead husband. But after running out of soup, she resorts to a measure that only a mother can take. In the luminous, moving title story, The Years, Months, Days--a bestselling, classic fable in China, and winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize--an elderly man stays behind in his small village after a terrible drought forces everyone to leave. Unable to make the grueling march through the mountains, he becomes the lone inhabitant, along with a blind dog. As he fends off the natural world from overtaking his hometown, every day is a victory over death. With touches of the fantastical and with deep humanity, these two magnificent novellas--masterpieces of the short form--reflect the universality of mankind's will to live, live well, and live with purpose."--From publisher.

Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.

Psychological fiction.

Magic realism (Literature)

Literary fiction.

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