La Joie
By Mo Yan
2007
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An anthology of 8 novellas and short stories by the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan. The Yellow-haired Baby, Explosions and The Crystal Carrot are also included in this anthology published in the 1980's. Mo Yan has won numerous awards including the 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Books for Big Breasts and Wide Hips, which was also nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He is most famous in the West as the writer of Red Sorghum, the 1987 award winning film directed by Zhang Yimou. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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Mo Yan
Author · 19 books
Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè). He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads. Chinese version: 莫言
