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The years, months, days / by Yan Lianke ; translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas.
Language: English Original language: Chinese Publication details: Melbourne, Vic. : The Text Pubishing Company, 2017.Description: 97 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781925603125
- 1925603121
- Nian yue ri. English
- [Fic] 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | YAN | Available | 067378 |
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Translation of: Nian yue ri.
The Years, Months, Days is a profound and moving fable about the deep love between an old man and his blind dog trying to survive in a terrible drought there is no food, the villagers have left, but the old man has managed to nurture a corn seed that has germinated on a mountain top. He is devoted to this seedling. The old man weighs the rays of the sun, working out the arithmetic of starvation and survival. Finally he realises that for his plant to survive, one of them has to be fertiliser. He loses the coin toss, lies in a grave he has dug and asks the dog to bury him.
Text in English.
