Mo Yan is the pen name of the Chinese novelist Guan Moye, who is one of the most celebrated writers in the Chinese language. His best-known novels in the West include Red Sorghum, which was made into an award-winning film; The Garlic Ballads, Shifu: You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh; and Big Breasts and Wide Hips. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first resident of mainland China to win the award.
“Mo Yan . . . brilliantly and fondly re-creates life with visceral
writing that reeks of gunpowder, blood, and death.” —The New York
Times Book Review
Praise for the work of Mo Yan:
“Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social
perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its
complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel
García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old
Chinese literature and in oral tradition.” —The Nobel Prize
Committee
“Mo Yan’s voice will find it’s way into the heart of the American
reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.” —Amy Tan
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