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"Big Breasts and Wide Hips" Author: Mo Yan Series: The Complete Works of Mo Yan
"Big Breasts and Wide Hips" Author: Mo Yan Series: The Complete Works of Mo Yan
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Mo Yan's masterpiece, recognized by the Nobel Prize in Literature jury as "Mo Yan's most outstanding novel";
Since the first edition was published, the cumulative sales of various editions have reached nearly 10 million copies, and it has been well recognized and loved by readers;
The "Bible" of Northeast Gaomi Township is a solemn "epic" dedicated to mothers all over the world;
One family witnessed China's successive sufferings; one story helped us understand China's vicissitudes over the past century.
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Big Breasts and Wide Hips is the representative novel of Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. It was written in 1995. The rich imagination, strong historical critical spirit, deep compassion and redemption sentiment make this epic work known as the "Bible of Northeast Gaomi Township". It has won the first "Da Jia Red River Literature Award" and the Nobel Prize in Literature Jury praised it as "Mo Yan's most outstanding novel".
This book restores the turbulent historical process of modern China over a century through the ups and downs of the members of a family in Northeast Gaomi Township. The mother in the book is like a folk goddess who bears suffering and has a tragic fate. The huge family composed of many children she gave birth to has a long and complicated relationship with various social forces, folk organizations and the power discourse in the crazy years, and is irresistibly involved in the political and historical stage. The competition and fighting between various forces unfolded within the family, which led to the reality that the mother had to bear and eliminate the suffering alone: soldiers and bandits, wars, displacement, death of relatives, and worry and anxiety about her only son who was a useless person. Her behavior of stealing food from the mill with her stomach during the crazy years showed her deep affection like a bird spitting out food. This magnificent masterpiece is more than 500,000 words long and was brewed for more than ten years, but it took less than three months to pour out.
"In the early spring of 1995, in a small house in my hometown, when I wrote on a piece of manuscript paper, 'This book is dedicated to the spirit of my mother in heaven,' my eyes were already filled with tears... I thought to myself that this book was not only dedicated to my mother, but also to all mothers in the world." - 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, Garlic Ballads, 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, Enemies of the Son, Joy, and Explosion; and many plays, operas, and TV dramas, including Farewell My Concubine, Our Jing Ke, and Brocade Clothes; as well as many 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 Everyone•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, Pontifical 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.
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Main Characters List 3
Volume 1
Volume 2, Part 51
Volume 3, 183
Volume 4, 299
Volume 5, Chapter 371
Volume 6, Chapter 461
Volume 7, 575
Volume 619
