Change (What Was Communism? Book 5)

Change (What Was Communism? Book 5)

In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiographyâ€”or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of â€œpeopleâ€™s history,â€ a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.

â€œThrough a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.â€â€” Nobel Committee for Literature
Country USA
Manufacturer Seagull Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-10-18
Format Kindle eBook

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