by Mo Yan · El Aleph Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476698556
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«Red Sorghum» is a novel by the Chinese writer Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. The work, set in Shandong province during the Japanese invasion of the 1930s, tells the story of three generations of a family over four decades of Chinese history. Through the misadventures of Commander Yu Zhan'ao and his young lover, the novel explores themes such as family, myth, memory, and the struggle for survival in times of war. Sorghum, an essential ingredient of a potent wine, becomes a symbol of peasant life and resistance in the face of adversity.
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".
