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. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food, the Japanese start firing and she is killed. Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress, the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history.

Red Sorghum

Literature & Fiction

莫言

Genre Fiction

Arrow Books

Vintage Books

The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature 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. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.

Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

United States

Penguin??Books

The Garlic Ballads

A powerful and apocalyptic vision of life for the innumerable people of China who exist at the mercy of an uncaring state. It is also a delicate story of love- between woman and man, father and child, friend and friend- and the struggle to maintain that love in the face of overwhelming obstacles.

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Frog

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

A Chinese novel of family, myth and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when China was at war with Japan and the rural landscape was unimaginably chaotic and violent. The award-winning author is a member of the cultural affairs department of the People's Liberation Army.

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