Mo Yan was a member of the Communist Liberation Army. So it is that the base, sustaining sorghum cereal, along with people, become drenched in blood. Time following the fall of traditional dynastic rule, a region once a German concession (Tsingtao beer), as China grapples between Communism and Democracy in modernization, plus Japanese invasion via Korea, culminating in Mao's Cultural Revolution. A tale of rural life in China's eastern seaboard in the 1920s & 1930s. Of interest, Mo Yan, popularly translated as "don't speak", is also a play on homophones of his given name, and, as author states, in honor of parental caution that "loose lips" invites trouble in troubled times. Shantung-born, 2012 Nobel winner Guan Moye (1955 -) is better known by his pen name Mo Yan. A legend in China, where it won major literary. A 3-generation, historical novel of family & myth narrated in a series of flashbacks. 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 Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. Softcover/NF w/light edge & surface rubs.
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