Monday, November 5, 2012
Pre Order Book - Red Sorghum By Mo Yan
The story of the novel Red Sorghum is narrated by the Grandson of the protagonist, Commander Yu who leads a group of villagers in preparing them for the advancing Japanese bother. Commander Yu sends his 14 year old young son to go home to get some food for all his men. Meanwhile, Yu's wife is returning back from the Sorghum fields with food but is brutally end by the startling firing from the Japanese men.
Her end becomes a symbol and a common thread in the story for linking the past & the present. It is a non-chronological novel narrated mainly in flashbacks. The narrator tells the story going back and forth with his family's history and recording the Japanese invasion war's progress.
Mo Yan has created a world that is a fine blend between fantasy and reality with historical and social perspectives of 20th Century China. It is a saga of human greed and corruption and the plight of China in the 1930's.
The novel graphically narrates the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China during the period of war. The work gives a deep insight into the Chinese culture and life style of that war period. There is constant bloodshed in the novel with in detail narration about the Japanese invaders, bandits, warlords and the feral dogs yet the theme of love (for the country, countrymen, life, family, village) is very much present at the center of the story.
Read on this classic tale of Shandong family with Mo Yan's brilliant verbal imagery of beautiful Chinese landscapes, culture and tradition. The book is on pre-order at infibeam.com
http://www.infibeam.com/Books/red-sorghum-mo-yan/9780099451679.html
Her end becomes a symbol and a common thread in the story for linking the past & the present. It is a non-chronological novel narrated mainly in flashbacks. The narrator tells the story going back and forth with his family's history and recording the Japanese invasion war's progress.
Mo Yan has created a world that is a fine blend between fantasy and reality with historical and social perspectives of 20th Century China. It is a saga of human greed and corruption and the plight of China in the 1930's.
The novel graphically narrates the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China during the period of war. The work gives a deep insight into the Chinese culture and life style of that war period. There is constant bloodshed in the novel with in detail narration about the Japanese invaders, bandits, warlords and the feral dogs yet the theme of love (for the country, countrymen, life, family, village) is very much present at the center of the story.
Read on this classic tale of Shandong family with Mo Yan's brilliant verbal imagery of beautiful Chinese landscapes, culture and tradition. The book is on pre-order at infibeam.com
http://www.infibeam.com/Books/red-sorghum-mo-yan/9780099451679.html
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