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Original Title:	紅高粱家族 [Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú]
ISBN:	0140168540 (ISBN13: 9780140168549)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	余占鳌, 豆官, 奶奶, 我
Setting:	China

Red Sorghum Paperback | Pages: 359 pages

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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 it 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.

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Title	:	Red Sorghum
Author	:	Mo Yan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 359 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Cultural. China. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asia. Nobel Prize

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Ratings: 3.75 From 5279 Users | 653 Reviews

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With this book I respectfully invoke the heroic, aggrieved souls wandering in the boundless bright-red sorghum fields of my hometown. As your unfilial son, I am prepared to carve out my heart, marinate it in soy sauce, have it minced and placed in three bowls, and lay it out as an offering in a field of sorghum. Partake of it in good health. Land is an altruistic asset. It belongs to no one; neither to its possessor nor to the ruthless capturer and not even to the industrious farmer who

Actual rating 3,85

I liked this book which takes place mostly in the 1930's and revolves around a family of people who depend on sorghum for most of their livelihood. A huge supporting cast made up of Chinese nationalists, communists, warlords and Japanese invaders makes for a lot of spilled blood which, like the sorghum, is red; lots of red. Still, as in life, there is humor, love/lust, tragedy and plain hard work, (but mostly tragedy). I was glad to finish the book but also to have read it. Believable historical

Mo Yan's Wikipedia entry reports: In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".Mo Yan, the pen name of Guan Moye, means 'don't speak'. But Mo speaks the unspeakable in 'Red Sorghum', forcing his readers to imagine the unimaginable, sparing no detail as he relates the cruelties meted out by almost everybody to almost everybody else in rural China before, during and after the Japanese

Mo Yan's novels are often praised because they depict the history of China's last six or so decades from the ground up. That is, they are usually set in the countryside, specifically his native Gaomi Township in Shandong, and concern precisely that class of people the Revolution was supposed to liberate. In the case of Red Sorghum, a 1987-novel that Zhang Yimou famously turned into a film, the historical background is the resistance against Japanese occupiers. Mo Yan's ground-up depiction of

This is a family history, skillfully interlaced with beautiful descriptions of nature set against the horribly disturbing and shockingly realistic background of the atrocities committed by both sides during the war and occupation of China by the Japanese. An astonishing book.

I'm aware that I ought to have liked this. Nobel prize winner, world literature, etc. But the more I read it (and I read to the very end, albeit in fits and starts for the last 50 or so pages) the less I appreciated its faux-mythologising stance, its glorification of violence, its utter lack of psychological - I won't say depth, because myth doesn't have depth, it just provides us with a terminology for depth - let's say, credibility. Oh yes, repeating words (sorghum an embarrassingly high