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  • Engels
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  • 9781448151172
  • 12 oktober 2012
  • 384 pagina's
  • Adobe ePub
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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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12 oktober 2012
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Hoofdauteur
Mo Yan
Tweede Auteur
Yan Mo
Hoofduitgeverij
Cornerstone Digital

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Howard Goldblatt
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Howard Goldblatt

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Periode
ca. 1920-1939
Land
China

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    "Red sorghum" is not your typical novel, in no one way. It is not linear, nor uses flashback the way we are used to read in Western literature. There is no such thing as "magic realism" as per Southamerican tradition, not at all. It can appear gorish to the excess, and reading it can be grueling. The prose is different, as it comes from a complete different writing paradigma, the Chinese one. No climax as we mean it, no "plot" as we mean it, the structure of the Chinese novel is completely different, more on the collection of episodes than a flow of connected events.

    But it is an amazing portrait of lives, of loves, of revenge and the cold necessity of it. It has pages of unforgettable literature, as Mo Yan is second to none in the use of the pen. God only knows what we are loosing in the translation!

    The stories (because truly is a collage of "stories" with a common, geographic and sentimental fil rouge are about the lives of a few chinese families during the two wars which raged China in the last century: the sino-japanese and the nationalist vs communist civil war. Peasants, meaning 90% of the Chinese population at the time, in the middle, as cannon fodder but also as heros, as unbelievable monument to human resilience and wish to live, to survive and to enjoy.

    A piece of true literature.

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