Cotton Candy — Mo Yan's Fine Work: Mo Yan's Fine Work

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is the sequel to Red Sorghum—no one has ever written about cotton like this. A blood and tears epic of a rural area's journey to industrialization. At the age of 17, the rural youth Ma Chenggong has always been infatuated with Fang Biyu, a young woman several years older than him, who is beautiful, upright, brave, and skilled. They are fortunate enough to leave the cotton fields together and arrive at the long-awaited cotton processing factory, where they meet talented and charming Li Zhigao, a self-proclaimed genius; Sun Hedu, a demobilized soldier; "Iron Hammer," a social outcast; Sun Honghua, the daughter of a cadre; and others. Thus, they begin a new, busy life and a love story unlike any other.