Used book "The Republic of Wine" [99% new]

A masterpiece of anti-corruption fiction written in the style of a detective novel;

A satirical masterpiece that transcends reading experience, a magical drama and a suspense film-like dreamscape.

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One of Mo Yan's important works, a representative work recognized by the Nobel Prize in Literature Committee.

Mo Yan confessed, "I am proud of this novel!"

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“The Republic of Wine” is a representative anti-corruption novel by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, written between 1989 and 1992. Because "its bold ideas, fantastical plot, ghostly characters, and innovative structure all exceeded the reading experience of French and even international readers," the French edition of “The Republic of Wine” won the 2001 French Laure Bataillon Foreign Literature Prize; in 2004, the Italian edition won the Nonino International Literary Prize.

This book has three narrative layers. The first layer is a novella written by the character "Mo Yan," a middle-aged writer in the book, about special investigator Ding Gou'er of the procuratorate investigating a case of local officials cooking and eating male infants in the Republic of Wine, but he cannot escape the temptations of wine and women, and eventually falls into a cesspit and drowns. The second layer consists of nine short stories written by Dr. Li Yidou of the Republic of Wine, who corresponds with "Mo Yan," telling a series of absurd stories in the Republic of Wine from Li Yidou's perspective. The last layer is the correspondence between "Mo Yan" and Li Yidou, and eventually "Mo Yan" personally visits the Republic of Wine to meet Li Yidou and others, and like "Ding Gou'er" in his own writing, irresistibly succumbs to wine and women and begins to degenerate.

"'The Republic of Wine' expresses my regret for human degeneration and my hatred for corrupt officials." —Mo Yan

Mo Yan, born in Gaomi, Shandong in 1955, joined the army and left his hometown in 1976, and began literary creation in the early 1980s. In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his works that "merge hallucinatory realism with folk tales, history, and contemporary social reality," becoming the first Chinese writer to win this prestigious award.

His major works include 11 novels such as "Red Sorghum," "The Garlic Ballads," "The Republic of Wine," "Big Breasts & Wide Hips," "Sandalwood Death," "Pow!" "Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out," and "Frog"; more than 100 novellas and short stories such as "Transparent Radish," "The Enemy of the Son," "Happiness," and "Explosion"; and many plays, operas, and film and television scripts such as "Farewell My Concubine," "Our Jing Ke," and "Brocade Clothes"; he also has several collections of essays, speeches, and dialogues. His works have been translated into more than 50 languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, and Arabic.

Mo Yan and his works have won important domestic awards such as the Feng Mu Literary Prize, the United Literature Prize, the Da Jia • Red River Literary Prize, the Chinese Literary Media Award • Annual Outstanding Achievement Award, the World Chinese Long Novel Award • Dream of the Red Chamber Award, the Mao Dun Literature Prize, the National Drama Culture Award Golden Lion Screenwriter Award, the Chinese Arts and Culture Award, and the Influencing the World's Chinese Award, as well as important international awards such as the French Laure Bataillon Foreign Literature Prize, the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, the Italian Nonino International Literary Prize, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Manhae Literary Prize, and the Algerian "National Excellence Award."

In addition, Mo Yan has been awarded honorary doctorates by more than ten Chinese and foreign universities, including The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Fo Guang University in Taiwan, Sofia University in Bulgaria, Aix-Marseille University in France, City University of New York in the United States, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and Diego Portales University in Chile, and holds titles such as the first "Distinguished Professor" of Beijing Normal University, a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, and an honorary fellow of Regent's Park College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.