The curse of the mummy
Julia Lovell
2 March 2013
Lenin’s Kisses Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas
Chatto, pp.512, £16.99, ISBN: 9780701188078
The former Soviet Union is so down on its economic luck that it can no longer maintain Lenin’s embalmed body. A brash official from rural China called Liu Yingque decides… Read more
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