In English
International Booker 2016 · Shortlist
The Four Books
四書 · Si shu
Yan Lianke · 53 when first published
Novel · Historical, Politics
Translated by Carlos Rojas
AI-generated summary:In a re-education zone for intellectuals during the Great Leap Forward, inmates known only as the Author, the Scholar, the Musician and Theology live through the steel campaign and the famine that follows.