The Garlic Ballads
by Mo Yan
In China, the tragic romance of farmer Gao Ma and Fang Jijnu, the pregnant woman who elopes with him. It is told against the background of the 1988 garlic farmers' revolt, protesting corrupt officialdom in Paradise County. By the author of Red Sorghum.
CookingSpecific IngredientsHerbs, Spices, CondimentsFiction
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERPenguin Books
LENGTH290
LANGUAGEEN
Chinese author. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
The Garlic Ballads
by Mo Yan
In China, the tragic romance of farmer Gao Ma and Fang Jijnu, the pregnant woman who elopes with him. It is told against the background of the 1988 garlic farmers' revolt, protesting corrupt officialdom in Paradise County. By the author of Red Sorghum.
CookingSpecific IngredientsHerbs, Spices, CondimentsFiction
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERPenguin Books
LENGTH290
LANGUAGEEN
Chinese author. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
