Mo Yan Best: White Cotton

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: 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 in martial arts. They are fortunate to leave the cotton fields together and arrive at the long-awaited cotton processing plant, where they meet Li Zhigao, a talented and charming young man who is proud of himself; Sun Hedu, a demobilized soldier; "Iron Hammer," a social outcast; Sun Honghua, the daughter of a cadre; and others. From there, they embark on a new and busy life, as well as an extraordinary love story.
Mo Yan, a renowned contemporary Chinese writer, is celebrated in the Chinese literary world for his unique creative techniques. To date, he has published nearly ten long 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 Beixiang of Gaomi County in Shandong Province, reminiscent of Macondo in Marquez's works, to the extent that some critics have remarked that Mo Yan is China's own Gabriel García Márquez. Memories of rural life serve as the and background for many of Mo Yan's literary works.