Mo Yan

Broschiertes Buch

Red Sorghum

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Mo Yan was born in 1956 in Shandong, northeastern China. The author of over forty short stories and five novels, he is the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation, in both China and the West. The critically acclaimed film version of the novel, Red Sorghum, won first prize in the Golden Bear Awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2012.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arrow Books / Cornerstone
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 543044
• 3rd repr.
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9780099451679
• ISBN-10: 0099451670
• Artikelnr.: 22019015

Rezensionen

Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have. Amy Tan