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 adapted to film by the
award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou--Mo Yan shows why
he is also China's leading writer of short fiction.
His passion for writing shaped by his own experience of almost
unimaginable poverty as a child, Mo Yan uses his talent to expose
the harsh abuses of an oppressive society. In these stories he
writes of those who suffer, physically and spiritually, under its
yoke: the newly unemployed factory worker who hits upon an
ingenious financial opportunity; two former lovers revisiting their
passion fleetingly before returning to their spouses; young couples
willing to pay for a place to share their love in private; the
abandoned baby brought home by a soldier to his unsympathetic wife;
the impoverished child who must subsist on a diet of iron and
steel; the young bride willing to go to any length to escape an
odious, arranged marriage. Never didactic, Mo's fiction ranges from
tragedy to wicked satire, rage to whimsy, magical fable to harsh
realism, from impassioned pleas on behalf of struggling workers to
paeans to romantic love.
General
| Imprint: |
Skyhorse Publishing
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2012 |
| First published: |
November 2012 |
| Authors: |
Mo Yan
|
| Translators: |
Howard Goldblatt
|
| Dimensions: |
208 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-61145-735-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Short stories
|
| LSN: |
1-61145-735-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781611457353 |
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