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| Original Title: | 紅高粱家族 [Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú] |
| ISBN: | 0140168540 (ISBN13: 9780140168549) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | 余占鳌, 豆官, 奶奶, 我 |
| Setting: | China |
Mo Yan
Paperback | Pages: 359 pages Rating: 3.75 | 5279 Users | 653 Reviews
Describe Appertaining To Books Red Sorghum
| Title | : | Red Sorghum |
| Author | : | Mo Yan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 359 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. China. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asia. Nobel Prize |
Representaion Toward Books Red Sorghum
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. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new and unforgettable.Rating Appertaining To Books Red Sorghum
Ratings: 3.75 From 5279 Users | 653 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Red Sorghum
so much to say about it... It was one of the best reading in 2014.Mo Yan is very good story teller and the story was very blue. I am also glad that he won the nobel as it is caused his two books translated in Turkish with delay almost 30 years.Part of my Fall 2017 Best Of Chinese Literature project; more here, and a cool list of books here.Here's the greatest novel ever written about sexy hot grandmas. This lady's - well, it's his mom really. The book is narrated by the grandson, but his dad is the protagonist, so...it's complicated. I read this because it's about "three generations" of Chinese people, so I thought it might give me like a panoramic view of 20th century China, right? But it's really mostly entirely about 1939, the
Well-written, haunting, plenty of new perspectives. Except I hated it. I would never ever ever have finished it had not been on audio. I have acquainted myself with the depth of human evil in this book. Atrocities are described in great detail. Usually such books give you some little thing to cling to, some flowering plant in the desolation of human waste. Not so here. There is only misery, survival for some and death for most.The narrator is the grand child of one of the main characters. Most
Actual rating 3,85
Red Sorghum read to me like a Chinese version of Marquez. By Chinese I mean like those second rate Chinese knock-offs. And I am not a fan of Marquez, I find him overrated. However, if you're one of the people who has a spontaneous orgasm when they hear the word "Marquez", you might like this book too. I didn't.It's not like it has no merits at all. The prose reads very beautifully in English, so I guess it must have been even better in Chinese. The imagery and descriptions are very moving. When
"Red Sorghum" is one of the books I once started, but didn't finish, a book with multiple timelines that reach back to the time when Japan invaded China. The red in the title refers both to the Communist party, and to all the blood that was shed. I was at the Book Fair in Frankfurt when the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012 was announced: Mo Yan. Reading into it again now, i remembered what i wrote about reading a previous Nobel Winner, Herta Müller: "war, and the hardship it brings on so many
Come home! Youre lost if you dont. I know you dont want to, I know youre scared of all the flies, of the clouds of mosquitoes, of snakes slithering across the damp sorghum soil. You revere heroes and loathe bastards, but who among us is not the most heroic and most bastardly?
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