Howard goldblatt a novel of family, myth, and memory set during the fratricidal barbarity of 1930s china follows the chinese as they battle the japanese and each other. In 2012, mo yan was awarded the nobel prize in literature. Mo yan is best known to western readers for his 1987 novel red sorghum clan and was the nobel laureate for literature in 2012. Big breasts and wide hips sonoma county library overdrive. From library journal though this is the first of mo yan s novels to be translated into english, many americans know his work. Click download or read online button to get red sorghum book now. July 16, 2001 if china has a kafka, it may be mo yan. Mo yans red sorghum village home may never be the same again. From library journal though this is the first of mo yan s novels to be translated into english, many americans know his work from the film red sorghum, winner of the silver bear at the 1988 berlin film festival. A powerful new voice on the brutal unrest of rural china in the late 20s and 30s. Red sorghum tv series, a 2014 chinese tv series based on mo yan s novel.
Red sorghum has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, metamorphosislike transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy and casual cruelty of modern governments. It is based on the novel red sorghum clan by nobel laureate mo yan. Oct 11, 2012 that said, the book red sorghum is mo yans attempt to face memory in the first person. Red sorghum isbn 9780099580836 pdf epub mo yan ebook. A legend in china, where it won the major literary awards and inspired an oscarnominated film, this is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the. 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. Red sorghum is a 1987 chinese film about a young womans life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Red sorghum is a work with enormous impact written by mo yan in 1986, a dedication to the chinese literature and the world literature. Big breasts and wide hips king county library system. In his latest novel, mo yanarguably chinas most important contemporary literary voicerecreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel red sorghum. Big breasts and wide hips carnegie library of pittsburgh.
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