Geling Yan
严歌苓
Award Winning Author
Criminal Lu Yanshi
Criminal Lu Yanshi relates the life and times of a Chinese intellectual in the 20th Century. Lu Yanshi, a prodigy from a wealthy Shanghai family, earns a Ph.D. in the United States and sows his wild oats there but cannot escape his stifling social milieu, his overbearing stepmother and his forced marriage to her niece. As war and revolution engulf China, Lu Yanshi speaks out for intellectual integrity and freedom of thought - and pays the price for it in prison and labor camp.While incarcerated, he looks back on his life and realizes that his spurned wife was the true love of his life, and he longs to return to her.
This novel is based on the life experiences of the author's paternal grandfather and maternal step-grandfather. It served as the inspiration for two films by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou: Coming Home and One Second.
This novel sold over a million copies in its original Chinese edition plus Japanese and Korean translations. The renowned artist Ai Weiwei designed the front cover for this English-language edition.
Now available in hard copy and e-book formats.
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Praise & Reviews
评论
严歌苓的每部小说，都是一部凄美的人性史诗。她对当代中国变迁的深切感受，她巨大的创作能量，她既细微、又壮丽地文学笔触，呈现给我们独一无二的文学现象。读懂严歌苓，就读懂了当代中国。
杨炼
诗人
Each of Yan Geling’s novels is a poignant epic of humanity. Her deep feeling for the changes in contemporary China, her tremendous creative energy, her subtle yet magnificent literary strokes, present us with a unique literary phenomenon. If you read Yan Geling, you will understand contemporary China.
Yang Lian
Poet
米拉蒂存在的真正意义，是链接了那个时代所有可能发生的故事，曾经的中国往事看似荒诞得奇奇古怪，却真实得如同超现实主义的油画让人惊心动魄。作者给米拉赋予了巨大的能量，因为她要撑起那段历史，撑起每个人与历史的关系。
陈瑞琳
作家，评论家
About Geling Yan
关于严歌苓
Geling is one of the most acclaimed novelists and screenwriters in the Chinese language and a well-established writer in English. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution, starting at age twelve as a dancer in an entertainment troupe.
After more than a decade with the PLA, she published her first novel in 1986 and has been writing constantly ever since. Her best-known novels in English are The Secret Talker, Little Aunt Crane, The Flowers of War, The Banquet Bug, The Lost Daughter of Happiness, and White Snake and Other Stories.
Many of Ms. Yan's works have been adapted for film and television, directed or produced by famous directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Ang Lee, Li Shaohong and Joan Chen. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ms. Yan holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. She has published over 40 books and has won over 30 literary and film awards. Her works have been translated into twenty-one languages.
Her website is www.yangeling.com
Her Amazon author page is www.amazon.com/author/yangeling
严歌苓，女，生于上海，少年从军，二十岁从文。1986年出版第一本长篇小说，同年加入中国作家协会。代表作有：《扶桑》,《人寰》,《白蛇》，《少女小渔》，《第九个寡妇》、《小姨多鹤》、《金陵十三钗》、《穗子物语》《陆犯焉识》等作品。严于1989年出国留学，就读于芝加哥哥伦比亚艺术学院，获文学创作艺术硕士学位。自1990年严陆续在海外发表了近百篇文学作品，曾获得台湾和香港十项文学奖，在国内也获得多项文学奖。2007年严出版了第一部以英文直接创作的长篇小说《赴宴者》，受到英、美评论界的好评，并被BBC广播电台选入小说连播。根据严的小说改编、并由严参加编剧的电影《少女小渔》、《天浴》、分别获得亚太电影节六项大奖和金马奖七项大奖，根据严的长篇小说《金陵十三钗》、《陆犯焉识》改编、由张艺谋导演执导的影片分别参展于柏林和嘎纳电影节。严的小说被译为英、法、荷、意、德、日、西班牙、葡萄牙、希伯来，阿拉伯，瑞典文，维吾尔语等21种语言。
她的网站是 www.yangeling.com
她的作者页在亚马逊是 www.amazon.com/author/yangeling