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The Garlic Ballads: A Novel

Author Mo Yan

Format Paperback

Publisher Arcade Publishing

Category Fiction (Literary & Historical)

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WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness. Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take the law into their own hands, and a riot of apocalyptic proportions follows with savage and unforgettable consequences. The Garlic Ballads is a powerful vision of life under the heel of an inflexible and uncaring government. It is also a delicate story of love between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend�and the struggle to maintain that love despite overwhelming obstacles.

Authors

Mo Yan

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  • Publisher: Arcade Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781611457070

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