Road Construction — Mo Yan's Best: Mo Yan's Best

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: In that special era, the acting team leader of the road construction crew, Yang Lioju, led a group of road workers in a battle on the Balong River embankment. Life was hard and monotonous, with a sense of spiritual emptiness and boredom. Yang Lioju, unwilling to be lonely, fell in love with Bai Qiaomei, a tough and capable widowed woman from Masang Town. The cook Liu Luoguo unexpectedly met his long-lost daughter on the construction site. The shrewd and calculating man who came to bury dog bones ended up digging up a jar of gold and silver. The story of Sunba's pregnant wife, who brought her children to the construction site with her, unfolds in general sorrow.
Mo Yan, a renowned contemporary Chinese writer, is celebrated in Chinese literature for his unique creative techniques. To date, he has published nearly ten novels and over a hundred short stories and novellas. His novels, with their vibrant colors, novel sensations, and rich, unique imagery, present an artistic world in the Beidong Township of Gaomi County, resembling the Macondo town in Gabriel García Márquez's works. Some critics have even remarked that Mo Yan is China's own Gabriel García Márquez. Memories of rural life serve as the material and background for many of Mo Yan's literary works.