Mo Yan

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....

The author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize. In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan’s position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his...

In seinem großen neuen Roman zeigt sich der Literaturnobelpreisträger Mo Yan auf der Höhe seiner Kunst. In einem farbigen Bilderbogen erzählt er von seiner Heimat Gaomi, von Familiendramen in einer ländlich-patriarchalischen Gesellschaft und von den dramatischen Folgen der Geburtenpolitik...