The Annals of Zhalie. Deep in the Palou Mountain Range, there was a small village named "Zhalie", which literally means "burst". The annals of Zhalie chronicles the people, the families, the businesses of the village's vicissitude from a backward village of a hundred people to a big city with robust, or corrupt, city over thirty years. Yan Lianke's writing style magnifies the absurdity of the transformation. Yan's "Dream of Ding Village" was long listed by the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize and Yan is the 2014 winner of the Franz Kafka Prize for his literary achievement.