Explosion Chronicles

Explosion ChroniclesMan Booker International finalist Yan Lianke has been lauded for his imaginative satire and insightful cultural critique as "one of China's greatest living authors" (Guardian). His internationally bestselling new novel, The Explosion Chronicles, follows the excessive expansion of a rural community from small village to megalopolis. With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a

and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights

achingly authentic

Roz meets Scott Elias--wealthy

In the middle of the night

hope and longing has a way of unlocking your heart's deepest secrets

instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother

alongside their two year old son Ev--whose language is developing as Tom's is disappearing--Marion and Tom lovingly weather the storm together

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First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall

A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents

Samuel begins to help answer these prayers

and wolves are great at howling in class