Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) works that earned him laurels

works that earned him laurels and established his fame as a writer

It documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses

bankrupt and belligerent

In THE POWER OF UNWAVERING FOCUS

Returning home to Vienna in 1918 after three years in a Russian Prisoner of War camp

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) works that earned him laurelsSpanning 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. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar nominated film, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new