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The Republic of Wine
Skyhorse Publishing 2004; US$ 9.99A wild drinker's tale from Nobel Prize for Literature winner Mo Yan. When special investigator Ding Gou'er hears persistent rumors that there is cannibalism in the province called the Republic of Wine, he goes to learn the truth. Beginning at the Mount Luo Coal Mine, he meets Diamond Jin, legendary for his capacity to hold his liquor and fondness for... more...
Red Sorghum
Random House 2012; US$ 10.67Spanning 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 the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's... more...
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
Skyhorse Publishing 2003; US$ 9.99"If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan. Like Kafka, Yan (The Republic of Wine; Red Sorghum) has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis-like transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy and casual cruelty of modern governments. The title novella of this collection of eight tales chronicles... more...
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Skyhorse Publishing 2011; US$ 17.95China's most important contemporary literary voice delivers a portrait of twentieth-century China full of historical sweep and earthy exuberance.2012 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Mo Yan once again enthralls in the style of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple... more...
The Garlic Ballads
Skyhorse Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have... more...
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Skyhorse Publishing 2012; US$ 16.95Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has Ximen Nao tortured endlessly, trying to make him... more...
Red Sorghum
Penguin Group US 1994; US$ 13.99The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning 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... more...
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