
Pow! |
Book Category:
Fiction > General
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Author:
Mo Yan
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Binding:
Cloth
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ISBN 13:
9780857420763
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Price:
USD 27.50
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Publication Year:
2012
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Publisher Info
University of Chicago Press. InquiryIn this novel byA the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novicea€s tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family dramaa€"in which nearly everyone diesa€"unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII mortar, we cana€t help but laugh. Reminiscent of the novels of dark masters of European absurdism like GA¼nter Grass, Witold Gombrowicz, or Jakov Lind, Mo Yana€s Pow! is a comic masterpiece. A In this bizarre romp through the Chinese countryside, the author treats us to a cornucopia of cooked animal flesha€"ostrich, camel, donkey, dog, as well as the more common varieties. As his dual narratives merge and feather into one another, each informing and illuminating the other, Mo probes the character and lifestyle of modern China. Displaying his many talents, as fabulist, storyteller, scatologist, master of allusion and clichA, and more, Pow! carries the reader along quickly, hungrily, and giddily, up until its surprising dAnouement. A Mo Yan has been called one of the great novelists of modern Chinese literature and the New York Times Book Review has hailed his work as harsh and gritty, raunchy and funny. He writes big, sometimes mystifying, sometimes infuriating, but always entertaining novelsa€"and Pow! is no exception. A A a€œIf China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan. Like Kafka, Mo Yan has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis-like transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy and casual cruelty of modern governments.a€ a€"Publishers Weekly
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Book Review and Awards
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature (WON)