TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yan,Lianke
AU  - Rojas,Carlos
TI  - The four books
SN  - 9780701186982
AV  - PL2925.L54 S57 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Chatto & Windus
KW  - Labor camps
KW  - China
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Communism
KW  - Famines
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1949-1976
N1  - First published as Sishu by Mingpao Publishing Company, Ltd. in 2010
N2  - In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling reeducation compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies. They are  forced to carry out grueling physical work and are encouraged to inform on each other for dissident behavior. The prize: winning the chance at freedom. They're overseen by preadolescent supervisor, the Child, who delights in reward systems and excessive punishments. When agricultural and industrial production quotas are raised to an unattainable level, the ninety-ninth district dissolves into lawlessness. And then, as inclement weather and famine set in, they are abandoned by the regime and left alone to survive
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