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The garlic ballads [electronic resource] : a novel / Mo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.

by Mo, Yan, 1955-

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New York : Arcade Pub., 1988.

Mo, Yan, 1955- -- Translations into English.

Farmers -- China -- Fiction.

Garlic growers -- China -- Fiction.

Political prisoners -- China -- Fiction.

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9781611455304 (electronic bk.)

1611455308 (electronic bk.)

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This epic novel of beauty and brutality, set in a landscape at once strange and alluring, paints a portrait of a people whose fierce passions break the rigid confines of their ancient traditions. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness.

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