Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) It documents a world of

It documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses

Christian missionaries

bankrupt and belligerent

Luke was inclined to think so – until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby…

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator) It documents a world ofSpanning 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 Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar nominated film, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new