A legend in China, where it won the major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, this is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and each other.
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A legend in China, where it won the major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, this is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and each other.
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Red Sorghum is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and each other. [It is] narrated by a young man at the end of the cultural revolution who tells the stories of his father, Douguan; his granddad, the most ruthless and infamous bandit and guerrilla commander in the region; and his grandma who fell in love with the commander when he raped her in the sorghum fields, only three days after her arranged marriage.
Critic Reviews
“"Mo Yan . . . brilliantly and fondly re-creates life with visceral writing that reeks of gunpowder, blood, and death." -- The New York Times Book Review Praise for the work of Mo Yan: "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garca Mrquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition." --The Nobel Prize Committee "Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garca Mrquez have." --Amy Tan”
"Mo Yan . . . brilliantly and fondly re-creates life with visceral writing that reeks of gunpowder, blood, and death." --The New York Times Book Review Praise for the work of Mo Yan:
"Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garc a M rquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition." --The Nobel Prize Committee
"Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garc a M rquez have." --Amy Tan
About the Author
Mo Yan was born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong. He is the author of Red Sorghum; The Republic of Wine; Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh; and Big Breasts & Wide Hips. He has won, among other national literary prizes, China 's Annual Writer 's Award. He and his family live in Beijing.
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