[Red Sorghum : A Novel of China] (Edition 2) (Paperback)

from Larxol

Red Sorghum was the first of Mo Yan's books to be translated into English, but somehow I didn't get to read it until I'd already read all the others. It was not his first published work in Chinese, and it is in no way a tentative first novel - he shows an audacious and fully developed narrative v...

from baswood

Fields of Sorghum appear on nearly every page of Mo Yan's novel and it is no wonder because his characters; eat it, feed their animals with it, make wine from it, fight in it, die in it, take refuge in it, make love in it, keep warm from it, build houses from it and one bandit group actually live...

from HadriantheBlind

Saw the movie, read the book. The film, as colorful and vivid as it is, covers only the first two chapters. This is a multi-generational story of a family in the Shandong countryside. One might be tempted to label it 'magical realism', but this is all set during the Japanese invasion, and life, a...

from Algybama

One of the slowest of slow-burns around. The back-and-forth temporality does nothing but annoy until the very end, when the final few chapters retroactively supply the missing emotional core of the novel, and a few characters who suffered terribly at the beginning finally became sympathetic. It's...

from BooksForDinner

Family history, folk tales, superstition, myth, tradition; a wonderful, strange, horrible, violent book. And I do mean violent. I am reminded of Garcia-Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude a great deal-a multi-generational fantastic novel-though this one demands even greater attention as it ski...