Mo Yan

A Novel of China

Red Sorghum

A Novel

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

Plagued by persistent reports of cannibalism in a province known as the Republic of Wine, the Chinese government sends special investigator Ding Gou'er to substantiate the disturbing rumors. Reprint.

The Republic of Wine

Degisim

Yasam ve Ölüm Yorgunu

الذرة الرفيعة الحمراء

Iri Memeler ve Genis Kalcalar

The author of The Republic of Wine presents a new collection of innovative short stories, which range from the tragic to the comic and reflect the author's own disdain for bureaucracy and repression, that includes the title story, which is being made into a major film by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Reprint.

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh

Gugu ist die 1. westlich geschulte Hebamme in Gaomi. Mit Beginn der Geburtenkontrolle ist sie verantwortlich für Abtreibung und Zwangssterilisation im Dienst der Ein-Kind-Politik. Um beruflich voranzukommen, macht sie sich zum willigen Werkzeug der Partei. Doch im Alter wird sie von Albträumen und Schuldgefühlen geplagt.

Frösche : Roman

Peito Grande, Ancas Largas

Mudanças

الثور

رجل لا يكف عن المرح وقصص أخرى

Il Paese dell’alcol

El terrateniente Ximen Nao es ejecutado y baja al inframundo, donde le condenan de forma ilícita a reencarnarse en un burro. Así comienza un inesperado ciclo de vidas, muertes y transmigraciones en distintos animales, pero sólo en el exterior, porque su mente y sus recuerdos siguen siendo los del hombre que era antes de morir. Una realidad cruda, difícil de aceptar y agotadora, ya que en cada una de sus reencarnaciones sufre una nueva injusticia, reflejo de las costumbres de un condado remoto de la China de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. La vida y la muerte me están desgastando es un relato magistral al que no le falta el humor más ocurrente y ácido. Mo Yan se convierte en personaje, cita su propia obra y se ríe de sí mismo. Una apuesta arriesgada que roza la perfección desde la perspectiva más exigente.

La vida y la muerte me están desgastando

Howard Goldblatt

The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness. Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take the law into their own hands, and a riot of apocalyptic proportions follows with savage and unforgettable consequences. The Garlic Ballads is a powerful vision of life under the heel of an inflexible and uncaring government. It is also a delicate story of love between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend—and the struggle to maintain that love despite overwhelming obstacles.

The Garlic Ballads

Una saga familiare che ripercorre le mille vicissitudini della storia cinese del Novecento.

Grande seno, fianchi larghi

Wan Xin è venerata come la benevola Niangniang, dea della fertilità e, allo stesso tempo, odiata come il boia inesorabile che esegue le condanne a morte: unica levatrice della regione, ha fatto nascere tutti i bambini degli ultimi cinquant'anni, ma non ha saputo sottrarsi alla brutale politica per il controllo delle nascite imposta dal partito. Con Le rane Mo Yan ha distillato la sua personale, obliqua visione della Cina, plasmandola nella storia di un personaggio epico e tragico, conturbante: indimenticabile.

Le rane

O escritor chinês vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de 2012 conta a história de sua vida, que não pode ser separada da do seu país na segunda metade do século XX. Mo Yan nasceu numa região rural da província de Shandong e se tornou um dois mais célebres escritores chineses. Contado num tom prosaico e repleto de anedotas, seu relato ilustra os contrastes da China contemporânea. Com humor e ironia, Mo Yan rememora momentos formativos de sua vida e abre uma fresta para o que a China foi e será.

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