Big Breasts & Wide Hips - Hardcover

Yan, Mo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559706724 ISBN 13: 9781559706728

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

The only boy in a family of nine children observes his own spoiled and ineffectual characteristics while surrounded by eight strong female siblings and a strong survivor mother, in a story told in seven chapters that take place in different historical periods of twentieth-century China. 12,500 first printing.

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Review:

[A] sprawling energetic novel.--Donald Morrison

A groaning table of brutal incident, magic realism, woman-worship, nature description, and far-flung metaphor. . . . Impressive and ardent. --John Updike

[A] sprawling energetic novel. --Donald Morrison

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: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1559706724
• ISBN 13: 9781559706728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 532