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Shifu, you'll do anything for a laugh / Mo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.

by Mo, Yan, 1955-

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Arcade Pub., 2011.

China -- Fiction.

9781611457353 (trade pbk.)

1611457351 (trade pbk.)

Shi fu yue lai yue you mo. English English.

xxii, 189 p. ; 22 cm.

Preface: Hunger and loneliness: my muses / Mo Yan -- Translator's note -- Shifu, you'll do anything for a laugh -- Man and beast -- Soaring -- Iron child -- The cure -- Love story -- Shen Garden -- Abandoned child.

His passion for writing shaped by his own experience of almost unimaginable poverty as a child, Mo Yan uses his talent to expose the harsh abuses of an oppressive society. In these stories he writes of those who suffer, physically and spiritually, under its yoke: the newly unemployed factory worker who hits upon an ingenious financial opportunity; two former lovers revisiting their passion fleetingly before returning to their spouses; young couples willing to pay for a place to share their love in private; the abandoned baby brought home by a soldier to his unsympathetic wife; the impoverished child who must subsist on a diet of iron and steel; the young bride willing to go to any length to escape an odious, arranged marriage. Never didactic, Mo's fiction ranges from tragedy to wicked satire, rage to whimsy, magical fable to harsh realism, from impassioned pleas on behalf of struggling workers to paeans to romantic love.

Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English.

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