Sandalwood Death A Novel

Name: Sandalwood Death A Novel
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ISBN: 9780806143392

ISBN-10: 0806143398

ISBN-13: 9780806143392

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mo Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

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This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch.Sandalwood Deathis set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)—an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the interplay between its female protagonist, Sun Meiniang, and the three paternal figures in her life. One of these men is her biological father, Sun Bing, an opera virtuoso and a leader of the Boxer Rebellion. As the bitter…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 11/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Mo Yan (literally, "don't speak") is the pen name of Guan Moye. Born in 1955 in Gaomi, Shandong province, he is the author of ten novels and more than seventy short stories. Mo Yan is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2009 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.