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"Sandalwood Death" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Sandalwood Death" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"Sandalwood Punishment" gives people the illusion of traveling between reality and illusion. The story is based on the background of the Reform Movement of 1898 in 1900, the capture of Beijing by the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the hasty escape of Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Germans' forced construction of the Jiaoji Railway in Shandong. The ups and downs of the characters' love and hatred, the colorful folk stories, and the horrifying bloody tortures have created a literary narrative atmosphere full of primitive mystery. It is in this sometimes real and sometimes magical narrative that the novel presents a vivid and colorful picture of Gaomi Northeast Township, and the people of Gaomi Northeast Township are active in this picture. The epic anti-colonial struggles they staged, the lingering love stories, and the cat-shaped operas that shocked the world and made ghosts cry, together present the vast and colorful land of Gaomi Northeast Township. On the stage constructed with highly imaginative, exaggerated and unbridled language, a series of dramas about pain, death, dignity, desire, friendship, loyalty and so on are being performed...
This book won the first "Dingjun Wenhua Award" in 2002 and the "2001 Top Ten Books Award" of Taiwan's United Daily News; and was shortlisted for the sixth "Mao Dun Literature Award".
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mo Yan, born in Gaomi, Shandong in 1955, is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has written 11 novels, including Red Sorghum, Wine Country, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Sandalwood Death, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frog, and more than 100 short and medium-length novels, including Transparent Carrot and The Commander's Woman. He has also written many plays and essays; many of his works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Arabic, Vietnamese and other languages, and have a wide influence in the literary world at home and abroad.
Mo Yan and his works have won the "Chinese Literature Media Award·Outstanding Achievement Award of the Year", the "Mao Dun Literature Award", the Hong Kong Baptist University "World Chinese Novel Award·Dream of the Red Chamber Award", Taiwan's "United Literature Award", France's "Laure Bataillin Foreign Literature Award", "Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France", Italy's "Nonino International Literature Award", Japan's "Fukuoka Asian Culture Grand Prize", the United States' "Newman Chinese Literature Award", etc.
