Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversial one-child policy. Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu--the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Comm...
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Based on real life stories. Thousands of farmers responded to the call of the county government and planted massive garlic sprouts, but ended up unsalable, and the county's officials were indifferent. The distraught farmers gathered spontaneously and caused the shock Garlic Event...
Set in a fishing village in southern China, not far from a modern city, where money, desire, power and sex set squarely in people's lives--from the older generation who were part of the Revolution to their children oblivious to the past.
[In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature], a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls ... As his dual narratives merge and feather i...
"This epic novel characterizes the author's family history, his spiritual development and the struggle of his mind and state"--Provided by vendor.