Herbivore Family -- Mo Yan's Works Series

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The Vegetarian Family is a long novel where Mo Yan unrestrainedly unleashes his extraordinary imagination, ranking as one of the works in Chinese literature that takes absurd fantasy to its extreme. It is also a work that fully embodies Mo Yan's world philosophy. Set in the Gaoqi Northeast Township, the novel depicts the relationship between the ancestors living on the barren yet fertile land and nature. History and reality, human and nature, visual, gustatory, tactile, and magical absurd imagination are all integrated in this work, painted in bold strokes and written with boundless creativity, leaving the reader in awe.