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Guan Renshan

关仁山

Born 1963 · China

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2011 · Nominee

    麦河

    Mai he

    Title translated by AI:“Wheat River”

    Guan Renshan · 47 when first published

    Novel · Family, Love

    AI-generated summary:In Yingwu village on the Wheat River in eastern Hebei, Cao Shuangyang leaves the land in 1998 to make money in a coal mine, losing his sweetheart Tao'er, while the blind storyteller Bai Liguo watches over the village and its past.

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2005 · Nominee

    天高地厚

    Tian gao di hou

    Title translated by AI:“High Heaven, Deep Earth”

    Guan Renshan · 39 when first published

    Novel · Family

    AI-generated summary:The loves, feuds and hard lives of three farming families are caught up in thirty years of reform in the Chinese countryside, as the villagers struggle to change their fate.