Mo Yan
Books by Mo Yan
4 books available
The Garlic Ballads
by Mo Yan
3.7(2,331)
In Mo Yan's "The Garlic Ballads," a government-ordered garlic boom ruins rural Chinese farmers, leading to corruption, jail, and a violent uprising inspired by a blind minstrel's defiance.
Red Sorghum
by Mo Yan
3.8(5,588)
In Shandong's crimson fields, a family's story unfolds with grand myths and harsh realities as they fight Japanese invaders and their own conflicts, forever staining the sorghum with blood and legend.
Frog
by Mo Yan
3.7(2,936)
A respected midwife's brutal dedication to China's one-child policy is the focus of Mo Yan's epic, which examines the human and national costs of extreme ideology.
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
by Mo Yan
4.0(3,440)
A kind landowner, executed during Mao's Land Reform Movement, is reborn as a donkey, ox, pig, dog, monkey, and finally a boy. He narrates fifty years of turbulent Chinese history through the eyes of the farm animals he becomes.