Date with the Master -- Mo Yan Works Series

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: "Meeting the Masters" is the second collection of short stories published by Mo Yan over more than two decades of literary creation (the first being "White Dog Sled"). It compiles forty-four works created and published by Mo Yan from 1990 to 2005. Several works, such as "The Burning of Flower Blue Pavilion," "Moonlight Slash," "The Lovers of the Leprosy Woman," and "Nine Segments of Fiction," are among his recent creations from the past one or two years and are published for the first time. Mo Yan's short stories are rich in plot and diverse in style, like a variety of colorful blossoms growing from the fertile and abundant land of China. They reveal the harsh realities of rural life with sharp insight, depict the touching love of the countryside with heartfelt emotion, and narrate fantastical yet vividly realistic legends. The collection of these works allows readers to fully appreciate the artistic charm of Mo Yan's works while also tracing his developmental trajectory as a novelist in literary academia.