{"product_id":"the-women-isbn-9781836742852","title":"The Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eA portrait of China’s century through the story of the women in the author life, from the highly acclaimed novelist, twice shortlisted for the International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir and part literary nonfiction, The Women captures the harsh and unequal experience of being a woman in 1970s and 80s rural China. Written by the award winning author Yan Lianke, the book is both a tribute to the women who shaped his life and a sociological critique of China’s treatment of women. “In the countryside, the human being is a worker,” but rural women’s work is diminished, their hardship ignored. Through humor and tragedy, Lianke shares their story and reveals a side of Chinese life rarely accessed by the West.Yan Lianke is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThree Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous novels and novellas, including \u003ci\u003eHard Like Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Day the Sun Died\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Explosion Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Four Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLenin’s Kisses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eServe the People!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDream of Ding Village\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Years, Months, Days\u003c\/i\u003e. Among many accolades, he was awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the Franz Kafka Prize, and was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer. He was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina étranger. He has also received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532212613349,"sku":"NP9781836742852","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-women-isbn-9781836742852","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}