Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh - Softcover

Yan, Mo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611457351 ISBN 13: 9781611457353

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

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: 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.

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Mo Yan's voice will find its way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have. --Amy Tan

Mo Yan s voice will find its way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have. --Amy Tan

About the Author:

Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in 1955 in North Gaomi Township in Shandong Province, an impoverished rural area that is the setting for much of his fiction. Despite the audacity of his writing, he has won virtually every national literary prize, including China's Annual Writer's Prize, its most prestigious award. He is the author of The Garlic Ballads, The Republic of Wine; Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh; Big Breasts and Wide Hips, and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, all published by Arcade, as well as Red Sorghum and Pow!. Mo Yan and his family live in Beijing. Howard Goldblatt taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. He is the foremost translator of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the West and a former Guggenheim Fellow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1611457351
• ISBN 13: 9781611457353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224