Change
Author(s): Mo Yan
In "Change", Mo Yan - China's foremost novelist - personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice versa). Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of 'people's history', a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.
Product Information
Mo Yan has published dozens of short stories and novels in Chinese. His other works include The Garlic Ballads; The Republic of Wine; Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh; Big Breasts Wide Hips; and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. Howard Goldblatt is research professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame and founding editor of Modern Chinese Literature.
General Fields
- :
- : Seagull Books London Ltd
- : Seagull Books London Ltd
- : 0.196
- : 30 April 2010
- : 185mm X 115mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mo Yan
- : Hardback
- : 895.1352
- : 108