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WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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 the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.

Mo Yan was born in 1955 in Gaomi County in Shandong province, China. He is the author of various novellas and short stories and numerous novels including Red Sorghum, The Republic of Wine, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and The Garlic Ballads. In 2012 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Howard Goldblatt is the award-winning translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese into English.

China's most important contemporary literary voice delivers a portrait of twentieth-century China full of historical sweep and earthy exuberance.

An epic novel of beauty and brutality.

An epic tale of love and loyalty, beauty and brutality by China's greatest living writer.

Features a benign old monk who 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. In this title, the author also treats us to a cornucopia of cooked animal flesh - ostrich, camel, donkey, dog, as well as the more common varieties.

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One of the Nobel Prize Winners in LiteratureIdeal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer's Life for Me, and similar worksWritten by today's most revered, controversial, and feared Chinese novelist Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remarkable story. The absurd, real, comical, and tragic are combined into a fantastic read. The hero—or antihero—is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for hi...

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 f...

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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEARWASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOKFrom the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China's most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole's feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community. She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is beautiful, chari...

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