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    "description": "A mystifying climatic incongruity begins the award-winning novel Lenin\u2019s Kisses\u2014an absurdist, tragicomic masterpiece set in modern day China. Nestled deep within the Balou mountains, spared from the government\u2019s watchful eye, the harmonious people of Liven had enough food and leisure to be fully content. But when their crops and livelihood are obliterated by a seven-day snowstorm in the middle of a sweltering summer, a county official arrives with a lucrative scheme both to raise money for the district and boost his career. The majority of the 197 villagers are disabled, and he convinces them to start a traveling performance troupe highlighting such acts as One-Eye\u2019s one-eyed needle threading. With the profits from this extraordinary show, he intends to buy Lenin\u2019s embalmed corpse from Russia and install it in a grand mausoleum to attract tourism, in the ultimate marriage of capitalism and communism. However, the success of the Shuanghuai County Special-Skills Performance Troupe comes at a serious price.",
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