Sideways Truth: Writing in a Totalitarian Regime
Reviewing ‘Heart Sutra’ and ‘The Day the Sun Died’ by Chinese Novelist Yan Lianke
If you don’t count the hulking novel penned in his late teens and used for kindling by his illiterate mother before it could be published, novelist Yan Lianke began his writing career working for the Chinese government as a propagandist in the People’s Liberation Army.
It didn’t last.
