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Yan Lianke receives Twitter Literary Prize

( chinadaily.com.cn ) Updated: 2015-03-26 11:13:17

Beijing, The Last Memory (2012)

Yan Lianke receives Twitter Literary Prize

To Yan, the book is a pastoral eulogy of his lost "garden" - his former residence in Fengtai district in Beijing. Courtyard No 711 was where he grew vegetables and developed his writing.

The book, with detailed narration on the plants and animals and Yan's life in the house, is hailed as 皇冠体育app's Walden, a classic by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

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