In English
Mao Dun 2011 · Nominee
Empires of Dust
农民帝国 · Nongmin diguo
Jiang Zilong · 67 when first published
Novel · 712 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:Guo Cunxian, a good, hard-working farmer, leads his village of Guojiadian out of poverty during thirty years of reform, but money, desire and power begin to change him.