by Mo Yan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021024012
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«Le veau, suivi de Le coureur de fond» is a volume of two stories by Mo Yan, published by Ed. du Seuil in paperback (256 pages, in French).
In two stories set in rural China, a teenager tries to take an injured calf to the vet, while a teacher with frail health and myopia competes in a school race. Memories and imagination intertwine to portray the harshness, cunning and humor of the peasantry during the Maoist era.
French edition of 2012, translated from Chinese by François Sastourne. The cover indicates the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Mo Yan.
For readers of contemporary Chinese fiction and stories with a rural and historical perspective, including those who want to discover Mo Yan's work.
Mo Yan, born Guan Moye, is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
