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Success of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Books Mo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the facial skin of his country's modern day books with such daring and masterly books as Red Sorghum, The Garlic clove Ballads, and The Republic of Wines. On this collection of eight astonishing experiences - the title story of which has been designed to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum, Zhang Yimou - Mo Yan shows why he is also China's leading author of brief fiction. His love for writing molded by his own experience of almost unimaginable poverty as a child, Mo Yan uses his ability to expose the severe abuses of your oppressive society. In these experiences he writes of those who suffer, in physical form and spiritually, under its yoke: the newly unemployed factory worker who hits after an ingenious financial opportunity; two former lovers revisiting their love fleetingly before returning to their spouses; young families willing to cover a place to reveal their love in private; the deserted baby helped bring home by way of a soldier to his unsympathetic better half; the impoverished child who must subsist on a diet of flat iron and metallic; the young bride willing to go to any length to escape an odious, arranged relationship. Never didactic, Mo's fiction ranges from tragedy to wicked satire, rage to whimsy, magical fable to severe realism, from impassioned pleas with respect to struggling employees to paeans to intimate love.
