Change

By Mo Yan

Book Overview

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 autobiography--or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of "people's history," 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. "Through 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 Garc a M rquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."-- Nobel Committee for Literature

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857421603
• ISBN13: 9780857421609
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.9"