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Red sorghum : a novel of China / Mo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.

by Mo, Yan, 1955-

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Penguin Books, 1994.

Families -- China -- Fiction.

China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

9780140168549 (trade pbk.)

359 p. ; 20 cm.

Translated from the Chinese.

"The four-chapter novel spans 40 years in rural China through flashbacks and foreshadowing, beginning with the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. Sorghum, used as food and as an ingredient of a potent wine, had been the focus and metaphor of peasant life during peacetime. In wartime, it becomes intertwined with the struggle for life. Death pervades this novel--death brutally dealt by Japanese troops, by factions within China, by crazed dog packs; death from suicide, starvation, and freezing. The strength and love of the narrator's grandmother and her lover insure the continuation of their line against all odds. But they cannot prevent the later introduction of a hybrid sorghum into their village that lacks the "soul and bearing" of prerevolution sorghum." -- D.E. Perushek, Library Journal.

Historical fiction.

Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.

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