# Lenin's Kisses

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- Book: [Lenin's Kisses](https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses) ([Lenin's Kisses.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke/lenins-kisses.md))
- Authors: [Yan Lianke](https://www.bookquiver.com/yan-lianke)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9956-948-0
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2013-10-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.