Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food ...
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Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food, the Japanese start firing and she is killed. Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress, the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history.
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Like New in Like New jacket. Paperback. Pages Number: 364 Language: Chinese. Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House Pub. Date: 2008-08-01. famous writer Mo Yan assembly line includes the latest full-length, Red Sorghum Family, Wine Country Sandalwood Penalty, forty one shot and tired of life and death, five, Ministry are all classic. Red Sorghum Family is one of them. The development of modern Chinese literary movement in history, Red Sorghum Family (1987), there has profound significance of the aesthetic transformation. On the use of fictional narrative instead of Living Presence, with.
