Books by Mo Yan
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review 1: Ci sono libri di cui sai tutto prima ancora di prenderli in mano. Ce ne sono altri che si scoprono per caso. Per quanto mi riguarda, questo splendido gioiello della letteratura cinese � stata una piacevolissima quanto inaspettata sorpresa? Mi aggiravo senza meta all?interno di...
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review 1: Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan, one of China's most recognized literary artists, offers the tale of execution and those who do the job, it's not pretty work and it's not an engaging endictment of pre-Communist China. It's set during the Boxer Rebellion -- 1898 to 1901 -- and casts the...
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review 1: Pow! is a book that I greatly enjoyed reading, but would not widely recommend. Crazy, huh?That's the problem. To the vast majority of readers, Pow!, I fear, would seem a disjointed romp, without being able to connect the narrative to Chinese history, current Sino events, and Budd...
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review 1: Pow! is not an easy book to which to assign stars. It's not an easy book to summarise either, as it's a hallucinatory narrative full of utterly repugnant people and events and yet is yet strangely funny and mesmerising. It's also hard not to read Pow! in light of the controversie...