Though this is the first of Mo Yan's novels to be translated into English, many Americans know his work from the film Red Sorghum , winner of the Silver Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival. The four-chapter novel spans 40 years in rural China through flashbacks and foreshadowing, beginning with the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. Sorghum, used as food and as an ingredient of a potent wine, had been the focus and metaphor of peasant life during peacetime. In wartime, it becomes intertwined with the struggle for life. Death pervades this novel--death brutally dealt by Japanese troops, by factions within China, by crazed dog packs; death from suicide, starvation, and freezing. The strength an
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- Тип обложки Мягкий переплёт
- Количество страниц 377
- Вес, г 280
- Размер 2.4x12.8x19.7
- Издательство ВБС Логистик
- Год издания 2003
- ISBN 978-0-0994-5167-9
- ID товара 2340614