Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife return...

Frogs is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012.A respected midwife, Gugu combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies.After a disastrous love affair with a defector leaves Gugu reeling, she throws herself into enforcing China's draconian new family planning policy by any means necessary. Her blind devotion to t...

This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch.Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)—an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the i...

During China's collectivist era in the later 1950s, a rural work team set to repair a river floodgate receives a new labour recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, sorry, silent boy. Assigned to pump the bellows at the worksite forge, Hei-hai proves indifferent to pain or suffering, but eerily sensitive to the beauties of the natural world. As the worksite becomes embroiled in human jealousy and strife, Hei-hai's eyes remain trained on a world that only he can see, searching for wonders that only he u...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

This contemplative, semiautobiographical picture book by Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, with illustrations by Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee Zhu Chengliang, is perfect for readers of A Different Pond and Watercress.One morning, so early that fog still sleeps on the surface of the river, a young boy accompanies his yeye seven miles north to the grassy field behind their home to cut satintail to feed the livestock. But when a massive gale scatters th...