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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A legend in China, where it won the major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, this is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and each other.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature <p/></b> 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 Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. <p/>A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, <i>Red Sorghum </i>is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new--and unforgettable.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Mo Yan . . . brilliantly and fondly re-creates life with visceral writing that reeks of gunpowder, blood, and death." --<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i> <p/>Praise for the work of Mo Yan: <p/>"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 <p/>"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<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mo Yan</b> 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 <i>Red Sorghum</i>, which was made into an award-winning film; <i>The Garlic Ballads</i>, <i>Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh</i>; and <i>Big Breasts and Wide Hips</i>. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first resident of mainland China to win the award.

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