Serve the People by Yan Lianke

A brilliantly comic satire about a love affair from the visionary worldclass storyteller. Set in 1967 at the peak of the Mao cult this is the tale of a forbidden love affair between Liu Lian the bored wife of a military commander and a young soldier Wu Dawang. When Liu Lian establishes a rule that Wu Dawang must attend to her needs whenever the households wooden Serve the People sign is removed from its usual place he vows to obey. What follows is both an enthralling love story and a delici Paperback softback