The Garlic Ballads.
YAN, Mo; Translated by Howard Greenblatt.
The Garlic Ballads.
New York: The Viking Press, 1995.
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First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mo Yan in Chinese on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Mo Yan fuses gritty realism, stunning imagery, acid satire, bawdiness, dream sequences, interior monologues, and flashbacks to the Cultural Revolution. His luminous prose lays bare the corrupt bureaucracy, grinding poverty and pervasive oprression borne by millions of inhabitants in the People's Republic" (Publishers Weekly). "If I were to choose a nobel laureate, it would be Mo Yan" (Kenzaburo Oe).
