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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Mo, Yan, 1955-     Subjects     Garlic growers -- China -- Fiction.     Farmers -- China -- Fiction.     Political prisoners -- China -- Fiction.     China -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mo, Yan, 1955-       by title:      The garlic ballads :...         MARC Display

The garlic ballads : a novel / Mo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. by Mo, Yan, 1955- New York : Arcade Pub., c2012. Subjects Garlic growers -- China -- Fiction.   Farmers -- China -- Fiction.   Political prisoners -- China -- Fiction.   China -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781611457070 (pbk.) : 1611457076 (pbk.) Description:  290 p. ; 21 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  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. Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take the law into their own hands, and a riot of apocalyptic proportions follows with savage and unforgettable consequences.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Fiction Mo (pbk) Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Fiction Mo   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Fiction Mo   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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