Lu Chi Mo said One billion I will help you repay your family's debt 300000 Your mother's surgery fee I will pay it for you One billion and three hundred thousand you marry me

**A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEARWASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK“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 author of The Joy Luck ClubFrom the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China’s most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy**Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole’s feisty aunt, is a resp...

It was said that he was cold and proud despite not being close to a woman. Yet, he had fallen in love with her.The two who should have parted ways began to tangle with each other. She also wanted to flee, but she couldn't escape from his grasp no matter how hard she tried. Was this fate or true love?

It was said that he was cold and proud despite not being close to a woman. Yet, he had fallen in love with her.The two who should have parted ways began to tangle with each other. She also wanted to flee, but she couldn't escape from his grasp no matter how hard she tried. Was this fate or true love?

It was said that he was cold and proud despite not being close to a woman. Yet, he had fallen in love with her.The two who should have parted ways began to tangle with each other. She also wanted to flee, but she couldn't escape from his grasp no matter how hard she tried. Was this fate or true love?

It was said that he was cold and proud despite not being close to a woman. Yet, he had fallen in love with her.The two who should have parted ways began to tangle with each other. She also wanted to flee, but she couldn't escape from his grasp no matter how hard she tried. Was this fate or true love?

It was said that he was cold and proud despite not being close to a woman. Yet, he had fallen in love with her.The two who should have parted ways began to tangle with each other. She also wanted to flee, but she couldn't escape from his grasp no matter how hard she tried. Was this fate or true love?

It was said that he was cold and proud despite not being close to a woman. Yet, he had fallen in love with her.The two who should have parted ways began to tangle with each other. She also wanted to flee, but she couldn't escape from his grasp no matter how hard she tried. Was this fate or true love?

In his latest novel, Mo Yan—arguably China’s most important contemporary literary voice—recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as the book’s central metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900 and married at seventee...

One of the Nobel Prize Winners in LiteratureIdeal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me, and similar worksWritten by today’s most revered, controversial, and feared Chinese novelistMo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remarkable story. The absurd, real, comical, and tragic are combined into a fantastic read. The hero—or antihero—is Ximen Nao, a landowner k...

The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by t...

In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine—a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering amount of alcohol produced and consumed ...