Change
Published on 25. May 2010
Book
Hardback
108 pages
978-1-906497-48-4 (ISBN)
Description
In "Change", Mo Yan - 2012 Nobel Laureate - 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.
Reviews / Votes
"If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan. Like Kafka, Yan has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis-like transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy and casual cruelty of modern governments." - Publishers Weekly, on Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh "As shrewd as he is captivating, Mo Yan is dedicated to explicating the suffering and resilience of ordinary people and to telling a darn good story." - Booklist, on Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 185 mm
Width: 115 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
196 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906497-48-4 (9781906497484)
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Person
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.