| "Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have." Amy Tan |
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food, the Japanese start firing and she is killed. Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress, the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history.
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Hardback Editions
April 1993 : Hardback
| Title: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China Author(s): Mo Yan ISBN: 0-670-84402-0 / 978-0-670-84402-9 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Adult Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1993 : Hardback
| Title: Red Sorghum Author(s): Yan Mo ISBN: 0-434-88640-8 / 978-0-434-88640-1 (UK edition) Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Red Sorghum Author(s): Mo Yan ISBN: 0-09-957227-3 / 978-0-09-957227-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2003 : Paperback
| Title: Red Sorghum Author(s): Yan Mo ISBN: 0-09-945167-0 / 978-0-09-945167-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Red Sorghum Author(s): Yan Mo ISBN: 0-7493-9852-3 / 978-0-7493-9852-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Minerva Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1994 : Paperback
| Title: Red Sorghum Author(s): Yan Mo ISBN: 0-14-016854-0 / 978-0-14-016854-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1993 : Paperback
| Title: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China Author(s): Mo Yan; Translator-Howard Goldblatt Publisher: Viking Adult Availability: Amazon More details... |
March 1993 : Paperback
| Title: Red Sorghum - C Format Edition Author(s): Mo Yan ISBN: 0-434-88641-6 / 978-0-434-88641-8 (UK edition) Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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