The Garlic Ballads - Hardcover

Mo, Yan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670854018 ISBN 13: 9780670854011

Publisher: Viking, 1995

Synopsis

Three special relationships are set against the backdrop of a glut on the 1987 Chinese garlic market, which causes the crumbling of many Paradise County livelihoods and a rebellion against corrupt Communist officials. By the author of Red Sorghum. 12,500 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"* 'Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature... His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have' - Amy Tan * 'If I were to choose a Nobel laureate, it would be Mo Yan' - Kenzaburo Oe, 1994 Nobel Laureate for Literature * 'Raw, brilliant, eventful... A tale full of seething vitality' - New York Times"

About the Author:

Mo Yan 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0670854018
• ISBN 13: 9780670854011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304