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Item Information       More by this author     Mo, Yan, 1955-     Subjects     Women -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mo, Yan, 1955-       by title:      Big breasts and wide...         MARC Display

Big breasts and wide hips [electronic resource] : a novel / Mo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. by Mo, Yan, 1955- New York : Arcade Publishing, c2011. Subjects Women -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.   China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.   China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=93AA7646-B979-4CD0-80CF-AA20C475A9ED This title is available online; click here to access ISBN:  1611453437 9781611453430 Description:  1 online resource Requests:  0 Summary:  China's most important contemporary literary voice delivers a portrait of twentieth-century China full of historical sweep and earthy exuberance.In his latest novel, Mo Yan--arguably China's most important contemporary literary voice--recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as the book's central metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900 and married at seventeen into the Shangguan family. She has nine children, only one of whom is a boy--the narrator of the book. A spoiled and ineffectual child, he stands in stark contrast to his eight strong and forceful female siblings.Mother, a survivor, is the quintessential strong woman who risks her life to save several of her children and grandchildren. The writing is picturesque, bawdy, shocking, and imaginative. The structure draws on the essentials of classical Chinese formalism and injects them with extraordinarily raw and surprising prose. Each of the seven chapters represents a different time period, from the end of the Qing dynasty up through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years. Now in a beautifully bound collectors edition, this stunning novel is Mo Yan's searing vision of twentieth-century China.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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