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Lenins Kisses is set in modern day China, in the village of Liven. Nestled within the Balou Mountains, the people have enough food and leisure to be contentuntil their crops and livelihood are obliterated by a snowstorm in the middle of summer. Then a county official arrives with a peculiar plan. He wants to use the villagers to start a traveling performance troupe. Next, hell take the profits and buy Lenins embalmed corpse from Russia and install it in a mausoleum to attract tourism. But the success of the Shuanghuai County Special-Skills Performance Troupe comes at a serious price.

Format: Paperback
Published: USA, 2013
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 512
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780802121776
ISBN 10: 0802121772