The Garlic Ballads: A Novel
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The Garlic Ballads: A Novel

Paperback – April 18, 2011

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Price
$15.96
Format
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1611452518
Dimensions
5.5 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight
12.3 ounces

Description

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.

Features & Highlights

  • An epic novel of beauty and brutality.

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Just put this book down.

Wonderfully descriptive language. Trying to absorb the culture which to me is so intolerant, unforgiving, misplaced, backward, but a great opening to how a more rural part of the society lives. My heart goes out to the hardworking farmers who toil to the bone. Down with corruption all over the globe! Imagine a more pure society,.. someday? I truly love learning all I can about the Chinese culture, this is a great avenue, reading their very own authors. God Bless your hard work, thank you, Mr. Mo.

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