The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSpanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction...
The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSpanning three genera...
This powerful novel by Mo Yan one of contemporary China s most famous and prolific writers is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China s last imperial epoch.
"Sandalwood Death" is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898 1901) an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China s farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the interplay between its female protagonist, Sun Meiniang, and the three paternal figures in her life. One of these...
This powerful novel by Mo Yan one of contemporary China s most famous and prolific writers is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique ...
ANEW YORK TIMESTOP BOOK OF 2015 WASHINGTON POSTNOTABLE BOOK The author of Red Sorghum and China s most revered and critically acclaimed novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole s feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community.She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic, and of an unimpeachable political background. After a...
ANEW YORK TIMESTOP BOOK OF 2015 WASHINGTON POSTNOTABLE BOOK The author of Red Sorghum and China s most revered ...
