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"Lanni: Stars, Plants, and Words" Author: [UK] Max Porter Translator: Puzhao Publishing House: People's Literature Publishing House
"Lanni: Stars, Plants, and Words" Author: [UK] Max Porter Translator: Puzhao Publishing House: People's Literature Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"Which do you think is more patient—a thought or a hope?"
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Contents:
In a village one hour away from London, ordinary people live and confess their small joys, prejudices, needs and pains every day. Here is also the old man named Tooth Grass in folklore. He listens to everything in the village and loves the land under his feet that resists the invasion of the village more than the wilderness where few people go. There is also a family who moved from the city. Their troubles are no brighter or darker than those of other families. The little boy in this family is named Lanny. He appears with flowers, stars and small sweet beans, jumping around in the open village. One day, he disappeared.
Hello, Lanny?
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Novels, plays and poems by Dylan Thomas Award winner Max Porter
A sensory stage where sound, color and shape intertwine
Nature, art, and innocence are small miracles that resist social pollution
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The rights have been sold to 21 countries/regions
Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Gordon Burne Prize, Wainwright Nature Writing Award, etc.
Selected as one of the best books of summer 2019 by The Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph
Goodreads rating 4.1/5
Thousands of reviews on Amazon UK, rated 4.3/5
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Dedicated to those who feel the world is noisy but still listen
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A modern version of Under the Milkwood (a play on Dylan Thomas's poetry). A fable, a collage, a dramatic chorus, a cauldron of stirring words... both blank and rich... full of love. - The Guardian
A remarkable metaphysical trick. —London Review of Books
Porter has a gift for describing the inner workings of a family. Whatever your preconceptions of English country life, Lanny will give you a fresh perspective. - London Evening Standard
"Lanni" is a re-imagining of folklore, dark and with a touch of wonder; it is also a moral story that mixes themes such as environmental awareness, parenthood, and child development, and is full of its own texture and stylized writing. It is about to be adapted into a movie, and it is obvious why. - The New Yorker
A story that brings to mind MR James and even Henry James, and a welcome return to an author worth reading. - Kirkus Reviews
A heart-pounding allegorical family drama. ——Sydney Morning Herald
Max Porter is one of my favorite writers. Why? Because he always asks the most important questions, then finds the answers through innovative structures and an incomparable voice, and answers these questions with his focused affection, making the world seem more weird and more intimate (or intimate because of weirdness). He brings new perspectives to readers. -George Saunders (author of "Lincoln in the Bardo")
It takes a special kind of genius to create something so strange and so fascinating. - Mark Haddon (author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
It will reach into your chest and grab your heart. You will press it into the hands of everyone you know and say: Read this. - Maggie O'Farrell (Maugham Prize winner)
A brilliant defense of the fragile foothold of outsiders in society. ——Wang Ouxing (TS Eliot Award winner)
Lenny has never left my life. It's a short book, but surprisingly rich in story. Get it from your local library, bookstore, or wherever you find books. I hope you'll have it on your shelf! -- Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City)
About the Author · · · · · ·
Max Porter
Born in High Wycombe, England in 1981, he obtained a degree in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and continued to receive master's education in performance art, psychoanalysis, and feminism. He then worked as an editor at Granta Books for seven years. His first novel, When Sorrow Grows Wings, was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for many literary awards. It is considered by the British literary world to be one of the most "strange, dazzling and addictive" novels in recent years. In 2016, he won the world's prestigious young writer award-the Dylan Thomas Award. Lanny is his second novel, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and the Wainwright Nature Writing Award. It was listed as the Sunday Times' Top Ten of the Year and the British Waterstones' Annual Recommendation. Currently, he lives in the small town of Bath, England with his wife and three children.
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