Hard Like Water Av Yan Lianke

<p><b>''The new masterpiece by eminent Chinese writer Yan Lianke . . . two revolutionaries take matters disastrously into their own hands while conducting a crazed affair'' MARGARET ATWOOD on Twitter</b><br><b><br>A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China''s Cultural Revolution</b><br><br>This is the story of the freewheeling love affair between married soldier Aijun and Hongmei, a beautiful young woman from his village in the Balou Mountains.<br><br>Intoxicated with one another, Aijun and Hongmei hurl themselves into their town''s revolutionary struggle. Spending their days and nights stamping out feudalism, writing pamphlets and organising rallies, they become inseparable: they are the engines of history.<br><br>But as their political activity reaches new heights, so does the danger of getting caught... <br><br><b>''A blistering tour-de-force... Sensuous and riveting''</b><b> MADELEINE THIEN, Booker-shortlisted author