Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Years, Months, Days | 1997 | Yan Lianke | Buy |
Yan Lianke’s short story collections include The Years, Months, Days, published in 1997. This is his earliest work available in English, predating his novels by several years. The stories are set in the rural Chinese countryside that provides the backdrop for much of his later fiction.
The collection gives readers an early look at the themes and settings Yan Lianke would develop more fully in his novels. The rural world depicted in these stories reappears in different forms across Lenin’s Kisses, Dream of Ding Village, and other novels.