Setting his story in an agricultural region of China, Mo Yan (Red Sorghum, 1993) takes a seemingly unlikely subject, the 1987 glut of garlic, and transforms it. Read more a landscape at once strange and utterly compelling, and a people whose fierce passions overflow the rigid confines of their traditions. An epic tale, banned in China, that tells of ordinary lives brutally destroyed by greedofficial and familial. Banned in China following Tianamen Square, 'The Garlic Ballads' is a bawdy, mystical and brawling novel that portrays. Against this heroic backdrop unfold three intricately interwoven tales of love, loyalty and retribution: between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend. The peasants of Paradise County in China have been eking out an existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot and blacken in the fields - leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist officialdom in an apocalyptic riot. Both novels are set in Mo Yans native Shandong Province, in the village of Gaomi, but any similarities end there. Description for The Garlic Ballads Paperback.
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