{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Lenin's Kisses",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "lenins-kisses",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Yan Lianke",
      "slug": "yan-lianke",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_GB",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": "zh",
  "first_published": "2013-02-07",
  "genres": [
    {
      "code": "FBA",
      "heading": "Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general"
    },
    {
      "code": "FYT",
      "heading": "Fiction in translation"
    }
  ],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses_978-00-9956-948-0.jpg?v=2026-04-22%2016%3A13%3A11",
  "description": "A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year’s crops, a county official dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district and boost his career. He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show, to include Blind Tonghua’s Acute Listening Act and Deafman Ma’s Firecrackers-on-the-Ear. With the money, he intends to buy Lenin’s embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia and install it in a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this sleepy district. However, as we all know, even the best intentions can go awry.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "Lenin's Kisses",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses/9780099569480",
      "publisher": "Vintage",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-00-9956-948-0",
      "pages": 512,
      "published": "2013-10-03",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses_978-00-9956-948-0.jpg?v=2026-04-22%2016%3A13%3A11"
    },
    {
      "title": "Lenin's Kisses",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses/9781446484739",
      "publisher": "Vintage Digital",
      "translators": [
        "Carlos Rojas González"
      ],
      "medium": "ebook",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-14-4648-473-9",
      "pages": null,
      "published": "2013-02-07",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage-digital/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses_978-14-4648-473-9-f7cd7858.webp?v=2026-10-09%2002%3A51%3A26"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}