Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

348 Pages·1994·1.42 MB·English

by  Mo Yan

Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Mo Yan
Dedication
Title Page
One: Red Sorghum
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Two: Sorghum Wine
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Three: Dog Ways
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Four: Sorghum Funeral
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Five: Strange Death
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Copyright
About the Book
Spanning three generations, Red Sorghum, a 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 Japanese invaders and
each other in the turbulent war years of the 1930s.
A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired the Oscar-
nominated film, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to
produce fiction that is entirely new and unforgettable.
About the Author
Mo Yan (whose real name is Guan Moye) was born in 1956 in Shandong
Province in China. The author of several novels. dozens of novellas and many
short stories, he has won virtually every national literary prize in China and is
the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation, both in China and
in the West. His often dark vision is transformed by his deep love for his land
and his fellow-Chinese, his mastery of language and the sheer intensity and
exuberance of his writing. Mo Yan is a member of the cultural affairs department
of the People’s Liberation Army.
Howard Goldblatt is the Editor of Modern Chinese Literature and has published
many acclaimed translations of Chinese works of fiction.
Also by Mo Yan
The Garlic Ballad
The Republic of Wine
Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh
Explosions and Other Stories
Red Sorghum
Mo Yan
Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt
With this book I respectfully invoke the heroic, aggrieved souls wandering in the
boundless bright-red sorghum fields of my hometown. As your unfilial son, I am
prepared to carve out my heart, marinate it in soy sauce, have it minced and
placed in three bowls, and lay it out as an offering in a field of sorghum. Partake
of it in good health!
ONE
Red Sorghum