Red Sorghum

Informationen zum Autor Mo Yan was born in 1956 in Shandong, northeastern China. The author of over forty short stories and five novels, he is the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation, in both China and the West. The critically acclaimed film version of the novel, Red Sorghum , won first prize in the Golden Bear Awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2012. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Mo, Mo Yan, Mo Yan, Yan Mo
• Assisted by: Howard Goldblatt (Translation)
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780099451679
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945167-9
• No. of pages: 377
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Arrow Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, c 1930 to c 1939, FICTION / World Literature / China / 20th Century