Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh A Novel

Name: Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh A Novel
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ISBN: 9781611457353

ISBN-10: 1611457351

ISBN-13: 9781611457353

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Authors: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

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Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories—the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou—Mo Yan shows why he is also China’s leading writer of short fiction.His passion for writing shaped by his own experience of almost unimaginable poverty as a child, Mo Yan uses his talent to expose the harsh abuses of an oppressive society. In these stories he writes of those who suffer, physically and spiritually, under its yoke:…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Mo Yan was born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong. He is the author of Red Sorghum, The Republic of Wine, Shifu, and Youï¿½ll Do Anything for a Laugh. He and his family live in Beijing.