In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine—a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering amount of alcohol produced and consumed ...

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?

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...

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...

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?

This contemplative, semiautobiographical picture book by Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, with illustrations by Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee Zhu Chengliang, is perfect for readers of A Different Pond and Watercress.One morning, so early that fog still sleeps on the surface of the river, a young boy accompanies his yeye seven miles north to the grassy field behind their home to cut satintail to feed the livestock. But when a massive gale scatters th...

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?

Lu Chi Mo said One billion I will help you repay your family's debt 300000 Your mother's surgery fee I will pay it for you One billion and three hundred thousand you marry me

In his latest novel, Mo Yan—arguably China’s most important contemporary literary voice—recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as the book’s central metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900 and married at seventee...