The Explosion Chronicles

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2017</b> <br><br>With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new significance as the rural community grows explosively from a small village to a town to a city to a vast megalopolis. <br><br>Behind this rapid expansion are three rival clans linked together by a web of ambition madness and greed. Together they transform their hometown into a Babylon of modern times -- an unrivalled urban superpower built on lies sex and thievery.<br><br>'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung Chang</p>