{"product_id":"hard-like-water-paperback","title":"Hard Like Water - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYan Lianke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarlos Rojas\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan's Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is instantly smitten. She is Xia Hongmei and lives up to her name of \"beautiful flower.\" Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the struggle to bring revolution to their backwater village. They spend their days and nights writing pamphlets, organizing work brigades, and attending rallies, feeling they are the vanguard for the full-blown revolution that is waiting in the wings. Emboldened by encouragement from the Party, the couple dig a literal \"tunnel of love\" between their homes, where underneath the village their revolutionary and sexual fervor reaches a boiling point. While the unsuspecting villagers sleep, they sing revolutionary songs and compete in shouting-matches of Maoist slogans before making earth-moving love. But when their torrid relationship is finally discovered, and they have to answer to Hongmei's husband, their dreams of a bright future together begin to fray. Will their great revolutionary energy save their skins, or will they too fall victim to the revolution that is swallowing up the country?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel of rare emotional force and surprising humor, \u003ci\u003eHard Like Water\u003c\/i\u003e is an operatic and brilliantly plotted human drama about power's corrupting nature and the brute force of love and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYan Lianke\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThree Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous novels and novellas, including \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 Franz Kafka Prize, 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 received two of China's most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.19 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252214153465,"sku":"9780802158130","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bUQ3bEkvWVFjWitablBqOFZqQllNQT09.webp?v=1768684665","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hard-like-water-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}