Red Sorghum: A Novel of China or Red Sorghum Clan (simplified Chinese: 红高粱家族; traditional Chinese: 紅 高粱 家族; pinyin: Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú; lit. Published

Red Sorghum: A Novel of China or Red Sorghum Clan (simplified Chinese: 红高粱家族; traditional Chinese: 紅 高粱 家族; pinyin: Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú; lit. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. Except I hated it. Well, the world, at least on the ground level, is always messy and this novel captures that well.

It's the first time I've read a Chinese novel, and I don't know how much is the translation and how much the original, but I did find the constant back and forth to different parts of the timeline, generally with no indication that a time shift was taking place, to be a little disconcerting. Sometimes, the family's passionate appetite for sex leads to incest.Intermittent stories of Commander Yu describe his as a balanced person with equal evil and equal good, but with each to a great degree. Still, as in life, there is humor, love/lust, tragedy and plain hard work, (but mostly tragedy). In a short aside, the novel flashes forward to the gruesome scene of his grandmother's body being exhumed from its wartime mass grave to receive a proper burial. Red Sorghum may refer to: . A lot of the book is related to symbolism. The part the plant plays on the novel seems to be that even through years of war and bloodshed, it still provides food, shelter, etc. There is only misery, survival for some and death for most.Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”“I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort.

"Zhang Yimou: interviews p 3 Frances K. Gateward - 2001 "I didn't know Mo Yan; I first read his novel, Red Sorghum, really liked it, and then gave him a phone call. Besides language so rich you can chew on it, and the deeply imagined characters, the greatest appeal of the novel, to me, were the many daring risks the author takes with form and structure.This novel removes any doubt as to whether Mo Yan deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature.

We’d love your help. This novel began as a short story published in 1986, so well received that it later was expanded into five chapters and published as “a family saga” in 1987, by the People’s Liberation Army Publishing House, Beijing.
The reason of course is that from the first few pages it feels very much like a war book, which it is, but it is so much more. There is a marked contrast between the beauty of the land and the sorghum fields and the depravity and darkness in the actual events which transpire. Mo Yan begins the first chapter of ‘Red Sorghum’ giving us the idea that it is autobiographical. Red Sorghum (Penguin Books, 1994) by Mo Yan is a historical novel that takes place in 1923-24 and the late thirties, during the war against Japan. The detail that really made it for me in here was that after Luohan gets the skin peeled off of his face, it's described as if he has little beads of blood on the surface of his raw meat, which is absolutely true - when you skin something, and you skin them really well, like hunters do, blood doesn't pour out and cover everything, rather it trickles and forms little drops.

Mo Yan's debut novel (and first US publication) was the basis of a 1988 Oscar-nominated film. The red in the title refers both to the Communist party, and to all the blood that was shed. Relating the story of a peasant family, the novel is about the hardships, love, hatred, and adventures of the peasants of Shandong. I'm on a roll lately!

Mo Yan's debut novel (and first US publication) was the basis of a 1988 Oscar-nominated film. There is a marked contrast between the beauty of the land and the sorghum fields and the depravity and darkness in the actual events which transpire. "I cannot believe I have let this book sit on my bookshelves unread for the past 3 years or so. Translation from Mo Yan, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, trans. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.

There is only misery, survival for some and death for most.Well-written, haunting, plenty of new perspectives.

So healthy that I read his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (which was beautifully crafted - and long), I watched interviews of him with subtitles, I'm going to get the movie "Red Sorghum" and watch it, just because it's after this book right here, not because I particulary enjoy Chinese movies, I've started taking more interest in China's development (the whole of it, not just the last 150 years) because their ancestry fascinates me, and above all that, I think I'm ready to read his entire work.
I will write a proper review later; for the moment, I am overwhelmed.Oh my hell, this book is so good! I believe the author of Red Sorghum, Mo Yan, is definitely someone who deserves a lot of credit for writing this book.His prose throughout the story is extremely well written. I asked the same question as I began reading Red Sorghum, the most famous novel by Mo Yan (real name Guam Moye). The description of one, gory single murder against the description of a massacre of hundreds creates a scene in which you feel you have been on the battlefield along with the narrator.

It was April and I was still filming Old Well, but I rushed to Shandong — I was tanned very dark then ..."Jing Wang - High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China -1996 p187 "Yet The Red Sorghum Clan is by no means a clear-cut case of classic modernism. Red Sorghum: A Family Saga.


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