The 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 beaut[...]
A benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII mortar, we can't help but laugh. Reminiscent of the nove[...]
In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama-in which nearly everyone dies-unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty W[...]
Nobel prize winner 2012!
Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero-or antihero-of Mo Yan's novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his g[...]
Mo Yan, China 's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country 's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories the title story of which has been adapt[...]
This is a collection of eight darkly humorous short stories - surrealistic political fables, ghost stories, tales of failed and perverse love, and stories about the destructive effects of superstition and ignorance. These stories capture the concerns of the Chinese: lack of income, famine, and the d[...]
Surrounded by a remorseless mother and seven sisters, each named in anticipation of his birth, a boy-child becomes the narrator of this story, presenting a generation of life in a rural Chinese community in twentieth century, populated by strong women and weak husbands, bandits and government bureau[...]
The peasants of Paradise County in China have been eking out an existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot and blacken in the fields - leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist offic[...]
The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new nov[...]
In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the f[...]
Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero-or antihero-of Mo Yan's novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness and benevolen[...]
In his latest novel, Mo Yan--arguably China's most important contemporary literary voice--recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological e[...]
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 [...]
In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic e[...]
This book analyzes Mo Yan's writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. When Mo Yan from China was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the term "hallucinatory realism" was invented to describe his storytelling as a "merging" of folk tales, history, and the contemporary. T[...]
Tvorchestvo vydajuschegosja kitajskogo pisatelja sovremennosti Mo Janja poluchilo priznanie vo vsem mire, i v 2012 godu on stal laureatom Nobelevskoj premii po literature. Eto nesomnenno odin iz samykh kreativnykh i naibolee plodovitykh kitajskikh pisatelej, sekret uspekha kotorogo v pretvorenii gru[...]
Cambios es la novela mas personal del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2012, cuarenta anos de historia de China vistos por un nino que se hace mayor en un mundo demasiado estrecho. Esta es en definitiva la vida de su autor, un hijo de campesinos que suena con ser camionero, un obrero y un militar, un escr[...]
Nobelpriset i litteratur 2012
Ett brännvinsbränneri är navet i denna roman, som är en märklig väv av kärlek och grymhet, blod och poesi. Kring bränneriet utbreder sig oändliga fält av mörkröd sorghum, det sädesslag som försörjer bränneriet men också ger bönderna deras da[...]
Nobelpriset i litteratur 2012
Ett brännvinsbränneri är navet i denna roman, som är en märklig väv av kärlek och grymhet, blod och poesi. Kring bränneriet utbreder sig oändliga fält av mörkröd sorghum, det sädesslag som försörjer bränneriet men också ger bönderna deras da[...]