Red Sorghum: A Novel of China - Softcover

Yan, Mo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140168540 ISBN 13: 9780140168549

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

Red Sorghum is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and each other. [It is] narrated by a young man at the end of the cultural revolution who tells the stories of his father, Douguan; his granddad, the most ruthless and infamous bandit and guerrilla commander in the region; and his grandma who fell in love with the commander when he raped her in the sorghum fields, only three days after her arranged marriage.

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Review:

"Mo Yan . . . brilliantly and fondly re-creates life with visceral writing that reeks of gunpowder, blood, and death." --The New York Times Book Review

Praise for the work of Mo Yan:

"Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition." --The Nobel Prize Committee

"Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have." --Amy Tan

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140168540
• ISBN 13: 9780140168549
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368