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Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book includes "Transparent Red Carrots," "The Way of the Dog," "Joy," "A Long-distance Running Race Thirty Years Ago," "The Master Becomes Increasingly Humorous," "The withered River," "Flying Birds," "Aunt's Treasure Knife," "Grandmother's Molars," "Thumb Lock," "Mo Yan and the Chinese Spirit," and a bibliography of the author's main works. The book begins with one story. On an autumn morning, the air was very humid, with a layer of transparent dew on the weeds and tiles. The locust trees had already turned light yellow, and the rusty iron seed clock hanging on the locust tree was also wet from the dew. The team leader, wearing a padded jacket, held a high flour cake in one hand and a large, peeled onion in the other, slowly walking toward the clock. When he reached the clock, everything in his hands was gone, leaving only two cheeks, like the old field mice in the autumn fields, bulging with food.