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"Herbivore Family" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
"Herbivore Family" Author: Mo Yan Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
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Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
"Herbivore Family" is a work written by Mo Yan from 1987 to 1989. It is praised as a long masterpiece in contemporary Chinese literature that develops absurdity and magic to the extreme. It is also a work that fully expresses Mo Yan's "herbivore philosophy", his awe and worship of nature, and his views on sex and violence. The novel is set in Gaomi Northeast Township and describes the relationship between generations of people living on a barren and fertile land and nature. History and reality, humanity and nature, vision, taste, touch and magical absurd imagination, rich details and unrestrained expression, all achieve a seamless integration in this peculiar work. The novel consists of five novella-length stories and one short story. Each story is independent in form, but they are integrated in spirit.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mo Yan was born in Gaomi, Shandong Province in 1955. 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 stories, 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 domestic and international literary circles. Mo Yan and his works have won the "United Literature Award" (Taiwan, China), the "Chinese Literature Media Award·Annual Outstanding Achievement Award", the French "Laure Bataillin Foreign Literature Award", the "Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Culture of France", the Italian "NONINO International Literature Award", the Japanese "Fukuoka Asian Culture Award", the Hong Kong Baptist University "World Chinese Novel Award·Dream of the Red Chamber Award", the American "Newman Chinese Literature Award" and China's highest literary award "Mao Dun Literature Award".
