Mo Yan blends grandeur with harsh, graphic realism well, confronting taboos head-on. But despite its power, the book can be a heavy, slow read—it didn't pull me in so much.
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Surrounded by a remorseless mother and seven sisters, each named in anticipation of his birth, a boy-child becomes the narrator of this story, presenting a generation of life in a rural Chinese community in twentieth century, populated by strong women and weak husbands, bandits and government bureaucrats, hen-murdering mid-wives and missionaries.
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Big breasts and wide hips, Howard Goldblatt, Yan Mo
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- 2006
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