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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Jintong, his mother, and his eight sisters struggle to survive through the major crises of twentieth century China, which include civil war, invasion by the Japanese, the cultural revolution, and communist rule in the new China.
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Big breasts and wide hips : a novel, Yan Mo, Howard Goldblatt
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