Mo Yan: 蛙 (Frog)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 蛙 (Frog). The basic theme of this novel is family planning and, in particular, the Chinese one-child policy. As usual the…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 蛙 (Frog). The basic theme of this novel is family planning and, in particular, the Chinese one-child policy. As usual the…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 四十一炮 (Pow!). This story follows Mo Yan's usual style - conflict in his small town. In this case, our narrator, the…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 檀香刑 (Sandalwood Death). This is another fine tale from Mo Yan, about the people of Mo Yan's home town, Northern Gaomi…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 天堂蒜薹之歌 (The Garlic Ballads). This is a thoroughly grim tale set in Mo Yan's usual Northeast Gaorni Township. We follow two…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 酒国 (The Republic of Wine). This is a chaotic, alcohol-fuelled story about excesses in China, particularly alcohol and sex. We follow…
The latest addition to my website is Christoph Ransmayr's Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit [Cox or the Course of Time]. The hero of this book is Alister Cox, based…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 红高粱家族 (Red Sorghum). This is a very colourful novel, set in Mo Yan's home town, from the late 1920s to the…
The latest addition to my website is Yan Lianke's 日熄 (The Day the Sun Died). This tells the story of the village of Gaotian, which happens to be the village…
The latest addition to my website is Dong Xi's 后悔录 (Record of Regret). This is fascinating novel set primarily in the Cultural Revolution and follows the story of Ceng Guangxian,…
As has been extensively reported Canadian writer and professor David Gilmour (no, not that David Gilmour) has made a bit of fool of himself, basically saying that there are no…