Red Sorghum
A Novel of China
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4.3 • 18 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 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.
Customer Reviews
Not my cup of tea
Maybe this is the naïve thoughts of a 16 year old, but I found this novel excruciating at times! The plot was very jumpy. It was exciting because the ideas click in your head like a puzzle, but the cons outweigh the pros for me by an acute degree.