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Red Sorghum

Mo Yan

Paperback | Pages: 359 pages

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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

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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.

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Title	:	Red Sorghum
Author	:	Mo Yan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

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This novel removes any doubt as to whether Mo Yan deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is complex, bawdy, earthy, poetic, wallows in dirt and blood, and soars to magnificent poetic heights. Besides language so rich you can chew on it, and the deeply imagined characters, the greatest appeal of the novel, to me, were the many daring risks the author takes with form and structure.If you've seen the movie, you've seen only the thin crust of the first two sections of the novel, cut apart and

You can say I've developed a pretty healthy obsession with Mo Yan's writing. So healthy that I read his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (which was beautifully crafted - and long), I watched interviews of him with subtitles, I'm going to get the movie "Red Sorghum" and watch it, just because it's after this book right here, not because I particulary enjoy Chinese movies, I've started taking more interest in China's development (the whole of it, not just the last 150 years) because their ancestry

This is a bold, brash, bawdy and brilliant work. Purporting to be a family chronicle that the narrator obtains from a 92 year old woman from his family village, it tells of his brave, lusty and larger than life grandparents and their turbulent existence carving out a life in the midst of a northern Chinese region infested with bandits, opium smokers and gamblers, and invaded by the Japanese. There are horrific scenes of brutality: second grandma (thereon hangs another tale) and young auntie were

With this book I respectfully invoke the heroic, aggrieved souls wandering in the boundless bright-red sorghum fields of my hometown. As your unfilial son, I am prepared to carve out my heart, marinate it in soy sauce, have it minced and placed in three bowls, and lay it out as an offering in a field of sorghum. Partake of it in good health. Land is an altruistic asset. It belongs to no one; neither to its possessor nor to the ruthless capturer and not even to the industrious farmer who

***************************************For about eight years (1937~1945), northeastern China was occupied by Japan. This brutal invasion occurred coincidentally within the 23 years of the Chinese Civil War (1927~1950). For someone who might not be at least superficially familiar with the appalling conditions of these two wars of attrition fought upon a countryside already devastated by poverty and organized crime, it might appear that this book contains far too much gratuitous horror.But for

I liked this book which takes place mostly in the 1930's and revolves around a family of people who depend on sorghum for most of their livelihood. A huge supporting cast made up of Chinese nationalists, communists, warlords and Japanese invaders makes for a lot of spilled blood which, like the sorghum, is red; lots of red. Still, as in life, there is humor, love/lust, tragedy and plain hard work, (but mostly tragedy). I was glad to finish the book but also to have read it. Believable historical

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