Red Sorghum: A Novel of China by Mo Yan
Winner: 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Spanning three generations, this 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 1930s.
A legend in China, where is won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film,Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.
