CHANGE
Mo Yan
CHANGE - 1 - London Seagull Books 2010/01/01 - 117 - What was communism?, 5. .
In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography—or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of “people’s history,” a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.
“Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.”— Nobel Committee for Literature
9780857421609
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Fiction
China
Mo, Yan, -- 1955- -- Fiction.
China -- Politics and government -- 1949- -- Fiction.
China -- Social conditions -- 1949- -- Fiction.
F / YAN
CHANGE - 1 - London Seagull Books 2010/01/01 - 117 - What was communism?, 5. .
In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography—or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of “people’s history,” a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.
“Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.”— Nobel Committee for Literature
9780857421609
Purchase LeftWord Books,New Delhi
Fiction
China
Mo, Yan, -- 1955- -- Fiction.
China -- Politics and government -- 1949- -- Fiction.
China -- Social conditions -- 1949- -- Fiction.
F / YAN