Serve the People!

A satirical novel set in 1967 China from the Franz Kafka Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Kiss —“one of China’s greatest living authors” ( The Guardian ).   Serve the People! is the story of a forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young wife of a Division Commander in Communist China, and a servant in her household, Wu Dawang. Left to idle at home while her husband furthers the revolution, Liu Lian establishes a rule for her orderly: whenever the household’s wooden Serve the People! si