Title : The Calf followed by The Long Distance Runner - Mo Yan - book
Summary :
NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2012
Blending memories and overflowing imagination, these two short stories, linked by Mo Yan's attachment to childhood, his native province, and the animal world, describe a rural China where resourcefulness allows one to face harsh reality. Mo Yan himself reveals himself as never before, as a boisterous and talkative teenager grappling with the calf's suffering, poverty, and the infinite cunning of men, or as a ten-year-old observer, candid and curious, of the long-distance race organized by the school. With each lap of the track, there is surprise, the suspense grows as the child paints a colorful picture of life in his canton in the sixties. Mo Yan delightfully lets the mischief and energy of childhood explode, the good nature, courage, and savage humor of the peasant world subjected to the absurd laws of the Maoist era.
Mo Yan, born in Shangdong in 1955, is now a universally recognized writer. Some fifteen of his novels and short stories have been translated into French and published by Seuil, including Beautiful breasts, beautiful buttocks (2004), The Master has more and more humor (2005), The Torture of Sandalwood (2006), Forty-one gunshots (2008), The Harsh Law of Karma (2009) and Frogs (2011).
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EAN: 9782021024012
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