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[...]

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[...]

Set in a country where men dominate, this novel is first and foremost about women

Each of the seven chapters represents a different time period, from the end of the Quing dynasty, up through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years.[...]

Don't be square Break out of the box with 150 creative motifs for knit and crochet "150 Knit and Crochet Motifs" is a fun and eclectic mix of patterns in both crafts, with shapes that go beyond the traditional square. Geometric and circular shapes are featured along with asymmetrical motifs like sh[...]

Boken handler om liv, død og erfaring i en kinesisk familie. Det meste av handlingen er lagt til de dramatiske 30-årene i Kina, en tid preget av indre oppgjør mellom rivaliserende bander og kamp mot japanske inntrengere.[...]

Mo Yan ble tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur 2012.

Under bokseropprøret i 1900 ligger babyen Shangguan Lü gjemt i et kar med mel mens foreldrene myrdes av tyske inntrengere. Nittitre år senere har hun overlevd den japanske okkupasjonen, borgerkrigen, Maos opprør og hele kulturrevolusj[...]

Jag sjunger om maj 1987 då ett brott inträffade i Paradiset. Polis strömmade till från alla håll och häktade nittiotre män av folket. Några dog, andra spärrades in; när ska folket få se rättvisans blå himmel igen?

Vitlöksballaderna är en storslagen roman, brutalt realistisk [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]