by Mo Yan · Pockethuis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789046140086
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«Het rode korenveld» is the historical novel by Mo Yan, published by Pockethuis in paperback (375 pages, in Dutch).
Set on the Shandong peninsula in the 1930s, it follows a young man who reconstructs his grandmother's life in a rural community during the Japanese occupation and the struggles between factions. The red fields, once a symbol of life and harvest, end up associated with spilled blood.
Dutch translation by Peter Nijmeijer and Hans van de Waarsenburg. Original title in Chinese: «红高粱家族» (1987).
For readers of historical fiction and Chinese literature, especially those who want to approach the China of the 1930s.
