Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Viking, $23.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-84402-9
In the way that Chinese landscape painting reshapes the viewer's perspective by offering not one but many focal points, this singularly forceful contemporary Chinese novel reinvents the notion of chronology. The narrator, a young man from the...
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Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt . Univ. of Oklahoma, $24.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-8061-4339-2
In an Author's Note, the Nobel Prize winner observes that he "had trouble" answering friends who asked what this historical novel was about, before concluding that it was "all about sound." Mo attempts to preempt the criticism he anticipates by...
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Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Viking, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-42798-8
Winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, Yan (Red Sorghum) is one of China’s most visible and controversial writers. In his latest novel, he depicts the implementation of China’s national family planning policy and its effect on the inhabitants
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Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Arcade, $27 (532p) ISBN 978-1-55970-672-8
Ripe with spectacular detail and unflinching in its portrayal of the Shangguan family, this latest saga by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum
) is a lavish feast for the senses sprawling across several decades and political regimes in 20th-century China's quasi-fic
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Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Viking, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-85401-1
Through this powerful, fiercely lyrical story of a Chinese garlic farmer's 1988 revolt, Mo Yan (Red Sorghum) uncompromisingly portrays the harsh realities of an existence difficult to comprehend. Garlic farmer Gao Ma aches with love for Fang Jinju,...
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Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Arcade, $23.95 (189p) ISBN 978-1-55970-565-3
If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan. Like Kafka, Yan (The Republic of Wine; Red Sorghum) has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis-like transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy...
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Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Arcade Publishing, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55970-531-8
Decadence and debauchery in post-Mao China find a scathing satirist in the author of the lauded Red Sorghum, as he waxes metafictional in this savage, hallucinatory farce. The tale is set in an imaginary Chinese province called Liquorland, where...
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Mo Yan, Author, Yan Mo, Author, Howard Goldblatt, Translator Penguin Books $14 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-023391-9
Banned in his native China, Yan's novel centers on a revolt among garlic farmers who are unable to sell their crop during a surfeit. (July)
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