CHANGE
Language: English Series: What was communism?, 5Publication details: London Seagull Books 2010/01/01Edition: 1Description: 117ISBN:- 9780857421609
- F YAN
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Lending | Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | F YAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 2018-07-07 | E189869 |
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F WIN/TH THREE LITTLE MIRACLES | F WOD/SU SUNSET AT BLANDINGS | F WRI CARPENTARIA | F YAN CHANGE | F ZEL FASCINATION OF EVIL | F ZOL/BE BEAST WITHIN | F ZOL/LA LADIES DELIGHT (AU BONHEUR DES DAMES ) |
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
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