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"Wine Country" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Wine Country" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
A masterpiece on the anti-corruption theme written in the style of a detective novel;
A representative satirical novel that goes beyond reading experience, a magical drama and suspense film-like Inception.
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One of Mo Yan's important works and a representative work of Mo Yan recognized by the Nobel Prize in Literature Committee.
Mo Yan frankly said, I am proud of this novel!
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Wine Country is the representative anti-corruption novel by Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. It was written between 1989 and 1992. Because of its "bold ideas, fantastic plots, ghostly characters and novel structure, which are beyond the reading experience of French and even global readers", the French version of Wine Country won the 2001 French Laure Bataillon Foreign Literature Award; in 2004, the Italian version won the Nonino International Literature Award.
This book has a three-layer narrative structure. The first layer is a novella written by the middle-aged writer "Mo Yan", about Ding Gou'er, a special investigator of the Procuratorate, who goes to the Wine Country to investigate a case in which a local official cooked and ate a baby boy, but is unable to escape the trap of wine and sex, and eventually falls into a toilet and drowns. The second layer is nine short stories written by Li Yidou, a doctor from the Wine Country who exchanges letters with "Mo Yan", telling a series of absurd stories in the Wine Country from Li Yidou's perspective. The last layer is the letters exchanged between "Mo Yan" and Li Yidou, and finally "Mo Yan" personally goes to the Wine Country to meet Li Yidou and others, and like the "Ding Gou'er" in his writing, he is uncontrollably exposed to wine and sex and begins to degenerate.
“Wine Country expresses my regret for the depravity of mankind and my hatred for corrupt bureaucrats.” - Mo Yan
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mo Yan
Born in Gaomi, Shandong in 1955, he left his hometown to join the army in 1976 and began writing literature in the early 1980s. In 2012, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his works that "combined psychedelic realism with folk tales, history, and contemporary social reality," becoming the first Chinese writer to win the award.
His major works include 11 novels, including Red Sorghum Family, Garlic Songs in Heaven, Wine Country, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Sandalwood Death, Forty-one Guns, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frog; more than 100 short and medium-length novels, including Transparent Carrot, Son's Enemy, Joy, and Explosion; many plays, operas, and TV dramas, including Farewell My Concubine, Our Jing Ke, and Brocade Clothes; and many other 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 Literature Award, the United Literature Award, the Red River Literature Award, the Chinese Literature Media Award•Outstanding Achievement Award, the World Chinese Novel Award•Dream of the Red Chamber Award, the Mao Dun Literature Award, the National Drama Culture Award Golden Lion Screenwriter Award, the Chinese Arts and Literature Award, and the Award for Chinese Influence Around the World, as well as important international awards such as France's Laure Bataillon Foreign Literature Prize, the Knight of the Order of Arts and Culture of France, Italy's Nonino International Literature Prize, Japan's Fukuoka Asian Culture Grand Prix, the United States' Newman Chinese Literature Award, South Korea's Wanhae Literature Prize, and Algeria's "National Excellence Award."
In addition, Mo Yan has been awarded honorary doctorates by more than ten universities at home and abroad, 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, Catholic University of Peru, and Diego Portales University in Chile. He also holds the title of the first "Outstanding Professor of Beijing Normal University", a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Germany, and an honorary member of Regent's Park College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
