Tou Ming De Hong Lao Bo

By Mo Yan

Book Overview

During China's collectivist era in the late 1950s, a rural work team building an important floodgate receives a strange new recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, silent and almost feral boy. Hei-hai proves superhumanly indifferent to pain or suffering and yet, eerily sensitive to the natural world. As the worksite becomes a backdrop to jealousy and strife, Hei-hai's eyes search for wonders that only he understands. One day, he finds all that he has been seeking embodied in the most mundane and unexpected way: a radish.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073431079X
• ISBN13: 9780734310798
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.2" x 6.9"