Red Sorghum 
Red Sorghum (Penguin Books, 1994) by Mo Yan is a historical novel that takes place in 1923-24 and the late thirties, during the war against Japan. Made into a very successful film by Jiang Yimou, Red Sorghum is packed with action, killings, guns, policemen, backstabbing, survival after near-death experiences, deeds of heroism and betrayal, and images of "lush" landscapes (the kind of landscapes that big Hollywood producers like). The novel is set in the village where Mo Yan grew up and which,
Oh my hell, this book is so good! I'm on a roll lately! It's hard to explain...as he does in half of Republic of Wine, he uses a narrator far removed from actual events to tell the story, in this case the grandchild of one of the novel's protagonists. The story is ostensibly about all the things that went into making the narrator's father who he is, but it's pretty moving. A lot of the reality's of mid-20th century china blend in with fantastic story-telling, action, and extremely vivid imagery.

"Red Sorghum" is one of the books I once started, but didn't finish, a book with multiple timelines that reach back to the time when Japan invaded China. The red in the title refers both to the Communist party, and to all the blood that was shed. I was at the Book Fair in Frankfurt when the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012 was announced: Mo Yan. Reading into it again now, i remembered what i wrote about reading a previous Nobel Winner, Herta Müller: "war, and the hardship it brings on so many
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 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
so much to say about it... It was one of the best reading in 2014.Mo Yan is very good story teller and the story was very blue. I am also glad that he won the nobel as it is caused his two books translated in Turkish with delay almost 30 years.
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Paperback | Pages: 359 pages Rating: 3.75 | 5279 Users | 653 Reviews

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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 |
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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.Particularize Containing Books Red Sorghum
Title | : | Red Sorghum |
Author | : | Mo Yan |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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 ReviewsJudge Containing Books Red Sorghum
Come home! Youre lost if you dont. I know you dont want to, I know youre scared of all the flies, of the clouds of mosquitoes, of snakes slithering across the damp sorghum soil. You revere heroes and loathe bastards, but who among us is not the most heroic and most bastardly?Red Sorghum (Penguin Books, 1994) by Mo Yan is a historical novel that takes place in 1923-24 and the late thirties, during the war against Japan. Made into a very successful film by Jiang Yimou, Red Sorghum is packed with action, killings, guns, policemen, backstabbing, survival after near-death experiences, deeds of heroism and betrayal, and images of "lush" landscapes (the kind of landscapes that big Hollywood producers like). The novel is set in the village where Mo Yan grew up and which,
Oh my hell, this book is so good! I'm on a roll lately! It's hard to explain...as he does in half of Republic of Wine, he uses a narrator far removed from actual events to tell the story, in this case the grandchild of one of the novel's protagonists. The story is ostensibly about all the things that went into making the narrator's father who he is, but it's pretty moving. A lot of the reality's of mid-20th century china blend in with fantastic story-telling, action, and extremely vivid imagery.

"Red Sorghum" is one of the books I once started, but didn't finish, a book with multiple timelines that reach back to the time when Japan invaded China. The red in the title refers both to the Communist party, and to all the blood that was shed. I was at the Book Fair in Frankfurt when the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012 was announced: Mo Yan. Reading into it again now, i remembered what i wrote about reading a previous Nobel Winner, Herta Müller: "war, and the hardship it brings on so many
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 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
so much to say about it... It was one of the best reading in 2014.Mo Yan is very good story teller and the story was very blue. I am also glad that he won the nobel as it is caused his two books translated in Turkish with delay almost 30 years.
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