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Item Details
Title:
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RED SORGHUM
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By: |
Mo Yan |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0140168540 |
ISBN 13: |
9780140168549 |
Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 1994 |
Pages: |
359 |
Description: |
A novel of family, myth, and memory set during the fratricidal barbarity of 1930s China follows the Chinese as they battle the Japanese and each other. |
Synopsis: |
Red Sorghum is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and each other. [It is] narrated by a young man at the end of the cultural revolution who tells the stories of his father, Douguan; his granddad, the most ruthless and infamous bandit and guerrilla commander in the region; and his grandma who fell in love with the commander when he raped her in the sorghum fields, only three days after her arranged marriage. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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