Features a benign old monk who listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls. In this title, the author also treats us to...

The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict...

"In Change, China's foremost novelist Mo Yan personalizes the social and political changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice versa). Unlike most historical narratives from China,...

Die endlosen Felder sind der Glanz und der Reichtum des chinesischen Dorfes Gaomi. In mächtigen roten Wellen erstrecken sie sich bis zum Horizont. Rot sind auch die Vorhänge der Sänfte, in der die schöne Dai Fenglian zu ihrem zukünftigen...