Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

This is the acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This specific offering is a 1994 Paperback Edition. Spanning three generations, this powerful 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. 'Red Sorghum' is a legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired the Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou. It is a compelling book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable. Binding: Paperback. Condition: Good. No dust jacket, as issued for this paperback edition.

• Author: Yan, Mo
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Year: 1994
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• ISBN: 9780140168549