Red Sorghum

Fülszöveg

'A novel that explores in great and compelling detail the fratricidal violence
that engulfs three generations of a single Chinese family Not since D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow has the natural world so effectively aided and abetted the themes of a work of fiction.' Financial Times
Spanning three generations, Red Sorghum, a 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 war years of
the 1930s. I
A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired the Oscar-nominated film. Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new and unforgettable.
'His imagery is astounding, sensual and visceral. His story is electrifying and epic. It is unlike anything that I've read coming out of China in past or
recent times.' Amy Tan
'His idiom has the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'A novel that explores in great and compelling detail the fratricidal violence
that engulfs three generations of a single Chinese family Not since D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow has the natural world so effectively aided and abetted the themes of a work of fiction.' Financial Times
Spanning three generations, Red Sorghum, a 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 war years of
the 1930s. I
A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired the Oscar-nominated film. Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new and unforgettable.
'His imagery is astounding, sensual and visceral. His story is electrifying and epic. It is unlike anything that I've read coming out of China in past or
recent times.' Amy Tan
'His idiom has the spiralling invention and mytho-maniacal quality of much "worldist" literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Salman Rushdie.'
Observer
'A magical, if harrowing, tale of a family caught up in the horrors of the Chinese civil war A masterpiece' Sky
'Mo Yan brilliantly and fondly recreates life with visceral writing that reeks of gunpowder, blood and death' NewYork Times Book Review Vissza