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Item Details
Title:
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THE GARLIC BALLADS
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By: |
Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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£9.89 |
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£2.10 |
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ISBN 10: |
0413775313 |
ISBN 13: |
9780413775313 |
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Currently 5 available |
Publisher: |
METHUEN PUBLISHING LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 March, 2006 |
Pages: |
304 |
Description: |
An epic tale of love and loyalty, beauty and brutality by China's greatest living writer. |
Synopsis: |
The peasants of Paradise County in China have been eking out an existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot and blacken in the fields - leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist officialdom in an apocalyptic riot. Against this heroic backdrop unfold three intricately interwoven tales of love, loyalty and retribution: between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend. Banned in China following Tianamen Square, 'The Garlic Ballads' is a bawdy, mystical and brawling novel that portrays a landscape at once strange and utterly compelling, and a people whose fierce passions overflow the rigid confines of their traditions. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Methuen Publishing Ltd |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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