**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...

The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureSpanning 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 Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nomin...

When Special Investigator Ding Gou’er arrives in the fictional province of Liquorland, the air reeks of coal and liquor. Tasked with investigating rumours that local officials are practising cannibalism, he transforms from observer to participant in the bacchanalian rounds of lavish banquets and intemperate drinking. Unable to keep up with Diamond Jin, an official with a notorious capacity for holding his drink, Ding falls into an intoxicated haze until the arrival of a new dish at the ban...

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...

In this multifaceted tour de force, Mo Yan flexes his skills both as an astute observer of society and history and as a leading practitioner of experimental and imaginative fiction.Ximen Nao, a wealthy landowner, loses his farm and his life as angry villagers redistribute the land after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. In Lord Yama's underworld, Ximen refuses to admit any wrongdoing even under torture. Exasperated, Yama returns him to his farm as a donkey, the f...

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...

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...

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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?